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Volatile organic emissions (VOCs) from the kiln drying
of lumber are of concern to government, research agencies,
and the forest products industry. In the Pacific
Northwest, neither the quantity of VOC emissions from kilns
drying Douglas-fir is available, nor the effects of drying
schedule and lumber-related characteristics on the
emissions....
As lumber producers are faced with a diminished and increasingly expensive raw
material, the need to maximize resource recovery will increase. Trim-ends (particularly
from waned boards) often contain some of the highest quality wood in any given log
and lack functionality only in length. This waste, traditionally chipped for pulp,...
Large inelastic strain occurs inside a piece of lumber during drying. The strain consists of several components such as elastic, plastic, creep, shrinkage and mechano-sorptive effect. The mechanical behavior of the whole board during drying is determined by the behavior of individual strain components and their interactions. Whereas limited investigations...
