Simulação numérica do processo de secagem de madeiras

• Autor(a) principal: Kondo, Marcel Yuzo [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/111060
• topic: Metodos de simulação; Madeira - Secagem; Método dos volumes finitos; Modelos matematicos; Mathematical models

Drying wood is an important process for utilization of this material. By removing water, dimensional stability, workability and mechanical properties of lumber are increased. This paper aimed the presentation of a numeric model to simulate this process with its resolution. Also the paper aimed a simulation that could provide a better understanding of drying process and the influence of involved variables. The model used here involves transport equations of heat and mass in a two-dimensional plane, and for its numerical resolution, finite volume method, appropriate for these types equations, had been used. When applying this method the equations are discretized and represented by a system of linear equations, where the unknowns describe the temperature or humidity of the wood in the center of each of the volumes entering the division of the specimen. Were used a code in SCILAB 5.5.0 environment, free license, solving the equations. The program presented profiles of temperature and moisture content with behaviors consistent with the behavior reported in the literature. An analyze of the influence of the mesh size of the control volumes and the time step size were made and using higher 25x25 control volumes mesh and step time lower than 240 minutes is recommended. The results were compared to those obtained experimentally by Martinović et al. (2001). It was found that the biggest difference between the experimental and simulated data for two different grid points considered, was 3.33% for temperature, and moisture content was the biggest difference of 10.72%. It was observed that the curves obtained with the simulation have the same behavior of the experimental data. The simulation performed in this work describes the drying of European beech wood