Some considerations in heterogeneous nonisothermal transport models for wood: a numerical study |
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Authors: | Wook Kang Woo Yang Chung Chang-Deuk Eom Hwanmyeong Yeo |
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Institution: | (1) Division of Forest Resources and Landscape Architecture, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 561-756, Republic of Korea;(2) Department of Forest Sciences, Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-921, Republic of Korea |
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Abstract: | This study compares a number of coupled heat and mass transfer models and presents numerical comparisons of phenomenological
coefficients between the four models (Stanish, Perre, Pang, and Avramidis) that are most frequently used in the literature
to describe wood-drying processes. The USDA sorption isotherm, the Hailwood-Horrobin model, was adopted to calculate the relations
between moisture content in wood and water vapor pressure at any temperature. Due to different assumptions about the driving
forces of heat and mass transfer, coefficients in each model represent different values for moisture content and temperature
and are closely related to each other. In the case of isothermal mass transfer, the moisture diffusion coefficient in the
transverse directions from the Stanish and Pang models increased with decreasing moisture content. This contradicts the Avramidis
and Perre models and numerous experimental results. Thermal diffusion effects on the drying process may not be predominant
because the nonisothermal state is relatively short. Therefore, the Perre model, which does not consider the thermal diffusion
effect, has been used successfully in the drying simulation. However, it may be erroneous in certain cases when the nonisothermal
state prevails over the system, such as building physics. The Pang model cannot explain the phenomena of thermal diffusion
and moisture thermodiffusion. It might be reasonable to modify the thermal diffusion of the Avramidis model, which is lower
than that of the Stanish model. The apparent heat diffusivity was higher than the true heat diffusivity. |
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Keywords: | Nonisothermal transport model Drying Building physics Phenomenological coefficients Sorption isotherm |
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