COST action E53 - Public - WG2 Meeting & Workshop in Riga

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Working Group 2
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COST E53 WG Meetings in Bled

COST E53 Conference in Delft

Literature - Fundamentals of wood drying

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COST E53 WG Meetings in Oslo

COST E53 Conference in Warsaw

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WG1 Meeting in Hamburg

WG2 Meeting (& Workshop) in Riga

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WG2 Meeting & Workshop in Riga

Topic: COST E53 WG2 Meeting & Workshop “Wood drying – vision of tomorrow”
Location: “Islande Hotel” 20, Kipsalas Street, Riga
Date: 23^th – 24^th April 2007

Agenda

Date	Monday 23.4.2007 9:00 – 17:00

Top 1 - 10	Theme
TOP 1	Welcome by local organizers
TOP 2	Role call of delegates, new delegates
TOP 3	Minutes of the last WG 2 meeting in Sopron
TOP 4	Report from SC Meeting in Hamburg
TOP 5	Discussion of themes and topics for midterm workshop/conference
TOP 6	Novelties in measuring MC and distortion
TOP 7	Contribution of WG 2 to Task Group on quality requirements
TOP 8	Report on status of leaflets and brochures on specific topics (as discussed in Sopron)
TOP 9	Proposals for future activities
TOP 10	Any other business

Final Program

Date	24.04.2007 8:30 - 17:00
Venue	“Islande Hotel” 20, Kipsalas Street, Riga

Time	Theme
08:30 – 09:15	Registration
09:15– 09:30	Welcome
09:15– 09:30	I. Akefelds
09:30 – 10:00	Wood drying today – drying quality, main tendencies and problems
09:30 – 10:00	I. Akefelds
10:00 – 10:30	Theory and praxis in wood drying
10:00 – 10:30	L. Travan
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30	Use of EN drying quality standards
11:00 – 11:30	J. Welling
11:30 – 12:00	Quality requirements on building timber and causes of distortion
11:30 – 12:00	R. Kliger
12:00 – 12:30	Top loading during drying - A successful method to reduce deformations
12:00 – 12:30	K. M. Sandland, S. Tronstad
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:00	Optimizing the kiln drying with VTT`s kiln simulation program LAATUKAMARI
13:30 – 14:00	H. Forsén, A. Hanhijärvi
14:00 – 14:30	Actions to reduce energy consumption during kiln drying of timber
14:00 – 14:30	K. M. Sandland, H. Horn
14:30 – 15:00	Wood drying simulation program Torksim
14:30 – 15:00	J. G. Salin
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee break
15:30 – 16:00	Dried Timber – how to specify correctly
15:30 – 16:00	B. Esping
16:00 – 16:30	Correct wood moisture content measurement
16:00 – 16:30	P. Rozema
16:30 – 17:00	Super heated steam drying on industrial scale
16:30 – 17:00	W. Gard
17:00	Summary. End of conference
17:00	I. Akerfelds

Program ; Minutes of the meeting; All lectures (pdf)

Photos from meeting