Caption: In September, EACOM installed a continuous
dry kiln at its Timmins sawmill.
Heat for
dry kilns can be generated by combustion-only systems or combined heat and power systems (CHP) using a variety of fuels.
Average
dry kiln schedules times were 72, 64, and 60 hours for CV antistain, 6 hours HTCV, and 10 hours HTCV, respectively.
"The rough lumber that was brought into Timmins was put through the
dry kiln and then fed through the planer.
The questions were designed to determine the monthly cost of electric and gas bills, the efficiency of electric motors used along with the percentage of total motors that were highly efficient, number and type of air compressors, number of
dry kilns, kiln capacity, type of fuel used, and monthly electricity and natural gas consumption.
Standard vents on most
dry kilns are static, meaning that they are just openings through which the hot, moist air from the kiln can escape due to the differential pressure created by the circulating fans.
In: Proceedings of the Western
Dry Kiln Association, May 21-22, 1987, Couer d'Alene, Idaho.
He was a member of the Church of Christ on Coburg Road in Eugene and he belonged to the
Dry Kiln Operators Association.
After sawing, the boards were placed in either a pile awaiting edge sawing or stacked onto a pick-up truck for transport to the
dry kiln. The edging process was accomplished through the use of a bull edger.
Kendrick Forest Products in Edgewood combines logging with a sawmill,
dry kiln and cabinet manufacturing operation.
Dual sampling trains each containing three impingers collected gas from a laboratory lumber
dry kiln. A mass flowmeter allowed the venting rate of the kiln to be determined.
"Today, the boiler is taking care of all the raw waste that comes from our plant and turns it into space heat that provides for all of our buildings, including our
dry kiln in the back."