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US 12,202,168 B2Granted
Conditioning system for wood processing and a method thereto
AssigneeRaute Oyj
InventorJussi Ojalainen
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Abstract
The invention relates to a wood conditioning system comprising: a first chamber; a second chamber; at least one air conveyor device for circulating air between the first chamber and the second chamber; the second chamber comprising at least one device for spraying water substantially against a direction of the circulated air. Some aspects of the invention relate to a method for wood conditioning.
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A wood conditioning system comprising:
- a first chamber;
- a second chamber;
- a droplet separator;
- and
- at least one air conveyor device for circulating air between the first chamber and the second chamber;
- wherein the second chamber comprises at least one device for spraying water substantially against a direction of the circulated air flow;
- and
- wherein the droplet separator is positioned in the system so that the circulated air travels through the droplet separator when output from the second chamber towards the first chamber.
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A method for conditioning wood with a wood conditioning system, the wood conditioning system comprising:
- a first chamber;
- a second chamber;
- the method comprising:
- circulating air between the first chamber and the second chamber with at least one air conveyor device;
- and
- spraying water against a direction of the circulated air flow with at least one device arranged in the second chamber;
- wherein at least part of the water is received from an external device;
- and
- wherein the water received from the external device is heated with energy obtained from another stage of a wood processing system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.