Superheated Steam Drying of a Wood Particle

Application ID: 132421


This model demonstrates the use of the Heat and Moisture Flow features for the simulation of superheated steam drying of a wood particle. A nonequilibrium formulation is used to compute the transport of the liquid water and vapor phases in the wood particle.

Reference: Le, K. H., Hampel, N., Kharaghani, A., Bück, A., & Tsotsas, E. (2018). Superheated steam drying of single wood particles: A characteristic drying curve model deduced from continuum model simulations and assessed by experiments. Drying Technology, 36(15), 1866–1881.

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