Wood dryer prototype for secondary processing with greenhouse technology, solar air collectors and electronic control systems

Cabanillas-Pardo L.; Cabanillas-Pardo J.A.; Mendoza-Pinedo A.; Jimenez-Montalban M.; Ríos-López C.A.; Pintado-Pompa L. · Revista Cientifica de Sistemas e Informatica (2023) · DOI: 10.51252/rcsi.v3i1.471

Resumen

Wood is widely used as a renewable material for the furniture industry, but for this it must go through a drying process that guarantees the final quality of the product. Our goal was to develop a prototype wood dryer for secondary processing with greenhouse technology, solar air collectors, and electronic control systems. For this, we carried out an applied, non-experimental, descriptive investigation, of a technological nature for knowledge transfer in a carpentry company where we built the prototype with a system of measurement, monitoring and control of temperature and humidity under an IoT system with an Arduino. Mega 2560 and a Raspberry Pi applying deep learning algorithms. We managed to build the prototype to dry different species of wood with an average capacity of 1078 feet, with a drying time of 5.3 days, with 95% wood without deformations and 100% color uniformity. The dryer allows satisfactory results in terms of the physical characteristics of the wood with highly acceptable percentages.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional de San Martín