Solar Drying Kiln
Dry timber, plaster and minerals on sunlight. The kiln brings timber, gypsum and damp solids to process moisture, and calcines at low temperature.
8,900Tonnes of kiln-dried timber a year
SunlightRuns on the array, unattended
Dried Product, Ready to Use
- Kiln-dried timber
8,900 tonnes a year dried as a service, for $1.29 per tonne against $18 to $25 for conventional kiln drying - Gypsum plaster
Calcined to hemihydrate at low temperature, bagged on site - Dried mineral solids
Any damp feed brought to process moisture
Specification
| Rated input | 850 kilowatts |
| Materials | Off the shelf components |
| Temperature | 45 to 200 degrees Celsius |
| Duty | Sunlight hours, unattended |
| Energy capture | 100% of array output |
| Intensity | 0.21 to 0.45 megawatt-hours per tonne |
| Accepts | Green sawn timber, gypsum rock, damp solids, wet salt |
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