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Wood drying is an important stage in the woodworking process. After drying, wood is subject to a re-sawing process, for which a high quality surface, low material loss, and high efficiency are often required. In this paper, forecasted values were presented of cutting power for the re-sawing process of pine and beech wood that were dried with four different methods. Forecasting of cutting power for an industrial band saw machine that works daily in a Polish sawmill was determined. Values of cutting power were forecasted for a full range of feed speeds of the analyzed band saw machine. The achieved results allowed the observation of noticeable changes in the forecasted cutting power for a given sawing process as a function of the wood drying method applied. Significant changes were observed for pine wood, especially between air-dried pine wood and wood dried with warm air-steam mixture, and between pine wood dried in a conventional kiln and with warm air-steam mixture.

Authors

• dr hab. inż. Daniel Chuchała link open in new tab ,
• Tomasz Ochrymiuk,
• prof. dr hab. inż. Kazimierz Orłowski link open in new tab ,
• Marcin Lackowski,
• Piotr Taube