| 摘要 |
A green wood treating process for treating wood (24) in a green stage prior to curing to prevent or minimize staining of the wood (24) as set forth in phase 1 of the initial green wood (24) heating and cooling phase, and for curing or drying the green wood (24) after the initial heating and cooling phase as set forth in phase 2 for subsequent drying. The treating and curing processes include the heating of green wood (24) in a heating enclosure (12) to a predetermined temperature over about 120 ~F while maintaining the moisture content of the wood (24) close to the original moisture content of the felled wood (24), and then immediately cooling the heated wood (24) with a cooling fluid at a temperature and humidity substantially less than the temperature and relative humidity of the heating enclosure (12) for a time period sufficient for the wood (24) to reach substantially the reduced temperature of the cooling fluid for normally removing at least about 5 % of moisture from the green wood (24). The green wood (24) is conditioned by the cooling step for subsequent drying steps in which moisture removal rates are substantially higher than moisture removal rates under prior conventional drying steps.
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