Wood Drying and Other Heat Treatments of Wood
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Wood Science and Forest Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 July 2026 | Viewed by 1051
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wood drying; ann; wood drilling; wood machining
Interests: wood drying; heat treatment of wood; wood technology
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Interests: wood physics; non-destructive characterization; acoustics of wood; wood drying; hydrothermal treatment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wooden material must be subjected to a drying process to avoid dimensional changes and biological degradation. Moreover, during drying, the mechanical and technological properties of wood are increased. Therefore, the wood drying processes represent a mandatory technological step during the entire chain of wood processing.
Despite all the progress achieved in the field of wood drying, from technical and automatic control systems, companies are still faced with problems regarding drying times, quality of drying, energy consumption, and a lack of well-trained wood drying operators.
A lot of topics have been studied through experiments and modeling techniques to better understand and optimize the drying process. However, research studies are still needed to optimize the drying process of wood according to current requirements, namely, reducing the energy consumption and increasing the quality of products. Thus, we encourage all researchers dealing with wood drying to contribute to this Special Issue, which is focused on all topics related to drying like water migration in wood, heat and mass transfer, stress development, airflow in kilns, drying schedules, drying quality, controlling and monitoring the drying process, and so on.
Dr. Bogdan Bedelean
Prof. Dr. Mihaela Câmpean
Dr. Aleš Straže
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wood drying
- water migration in wood
- heat and mass transfer
- drying schedules
- drying quality
- drying stress
- airflow in kiln
- modeling and optimization
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