A PROGRAM TO ESTIMATE THE EQUILIBRIUM MOISTURE CONTENT OF WOOD
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https://doi.org/10.5902/19805098347Keywords:
Wood equilibrium moisture content, drying.Abstract
In this article, a program to calculate the wood equilibrium moisture content is introduced. The program was developed in two modulii, in Delphi language, using the one and two-hidrate forms of the Hailwood-Horrobin equations.
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