Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society
Table 2 Drying rate of MW-pretreated and control samples in different drying stages
From: Effects of microwave pretreatment on drying of 50 mm-thickness Chinese fir lumber
Sample | Drying rate (%/hr) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Early stage (MC > FSP) | Later stage (MC < FSP) | Whole process | |
Pretreated quarter-sawn | 0.337 | 0.129 | 0.188 |
Control quarter-sawn | 0.232 | 0.116 | 0.173 |
Pretreated flat-sawn | 0.393 | 0.135 | 0.210 |
Control flat-sawn | 0.280 | 0.117 | 0.180 |