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EDG - Seminar 2009 in Bled

Topic: Wood Drying Seminar "Improvement of Wood Drying Quality by Conventional and Advanced Drying Techniques" in Bled, Slovenia
Location: Best Western Kompas Hotel, Cankarjeva 2m, Bled, Slovenia
Date: 23^th April 2009

Important deadlines

15^th December 2008: Pre-registration, Submission of title and authors (s) – informational

16^th January 2009: Deadline for Abstract Submission (max. 1/2 page)

23^th January 2009: Notification of Abstract Acceptance

10^th March 2009: Deadline for Full Paper Submission (max. 10 pages)

20^th March 2009: Return of reviewed papers to corresponding authors

20^th March 2009: Deadline for registration and hotel booking

06^th April 2009: Deadline for acceptation of final papers

For downloads

Flyer

Registration form (pdf) or (doc)

Call for papers - posters

Arrival and accomodation

For more information about University in Ljubljana and Department of Wood Science and Technology please visit: http://www.bf.uni-lj.si/lesarstvo/prva-stran.html

Programm

21^th-22^thApril 2009

COST Action E53 WG meetings

Thursday, 23^th April 2009

Time	Theme
09:00 – 09:10	EDG Drying Seminar: Welcome and opening
09:10 – 09:30	Johannes Welling: Questions to an expert - Problems related to drying of hardwood
09:30 – 10:15	Discolouration of wood – chairman Wolfgang Gard
	09:30 – 09:45; Allegretti Ottaviano; Travan Livio; Cividini Rodolfo: Drying techniques to obtain white beecha
	09:45 – 10:00; Pervan Stjepan; Gorišek Željko; Straže Aleš; Prekrat Silvana; Humar Miha: Colour changes of Walnutwood (Juglans regia L.) during steaming process
	10:00 –10:15; Lambertz Gerda; Welling Johannes: Increase in the Content of extractives in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) during ISPM-15 heat-treatment and correlation with fungal discoloration
10:15 – 10:45	Coffee break
10:45 – 12:30	Quality and energy efficiency – chairman Johannes Welling
	10:45 – 11:00; Karpinsky Daniel: Evaluation and comparison of quality of beech wood (Fagus silvatica L.) after vacuum drying and HF-drying
	11:15 – 11:30; Sandland Knut Magnar; Steiner Ylva; Henning Horn: Is it necessary to perform a controlled cooling phase at the end of a conventional kiln drying process?
	11:30 – 11:45; Németh Róbert; Fehér Sándor; Horváth Norbert; Molnár Sándor: The occurrence of cracks in boards from different suppliers prior and after drying by a windows manufacturer - a case study
	11:45 – 12:00; Steiner Ylva; Nyrud Anders Q.: Acceptance for deformation of dried sawnwood: A survey among practitioners in Norwegian sawmilling
	12:00 – 12:15; Skarvelis Michalis; Kakaras Ioannis: Quality related problems on wood and wood products imported from Balkan countries: the Greek users point of view
	12:15 – 12:30; Bedelean Bogdan; Sova Daniela: Decrease energy consumption during timber drying
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:15	Drying kinetics – chairman Knut Magnar Sandland
	13:30 – 13:45; Salin Jarl-Gunnar; Gjerdrum Peder: Modelling air-drying of wooden poles
	13:45 – 14:00; Hrcka Richard: Influence of specimen thickness on transport characteristics of water diffusion in black locust wood.
	14:00 – 14:15; Straže Aleš; Gorišek Željko: Research on internal and external mass transfer at convective drying of European beechwood (Fagus sylvatica L.)
14:15 – 14:30	Coffee break
14:30 – 15:30	Reliability of MC measurements – chairman Josef De Corte
	14:30 – 14:45; Gard F. Wolfgang; Riepen Michel: Moisture content control above FSP by shrinkage of the wood – first experimental results
	14:45 – 15:00; Hansmann Christian: Comparing psychrometer and humidity sensor during conventional kiln drying especially at low temperature and low relative humidity
	~~15:00 – 15:15 Ravenshorts Geert; Rozema Pieter: In-Line moisture measurement of wood with FMI-IV~~
	15:15 – 15:30; Merela Maks; Serša Igor; Mikac Urša; Oven Primož: Determining the moisture content of wood by free-induction-decay (FID NMR) signal
15:30	Final conclusions

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