Hi Mark ; This is true, but 100C is a special case because the water can exist as both a liquid and gas. If we discuss a slightly higher temperature, it may be clearer. If you heat wet wood to 105C by any means, all the water present in the wood will be a gas. Yes it will be in equilibrium, but since water as a gas occupies 100x more volume than water as a liquid, you will have succeeded in driving off 99% of the water. You could even do the heating with saturated steam and it would still work.
Please correct me if there are any errors in the logic. Best Regards, Peter G. (armchair gasifierist) Thailand www.gac-seeds.com --- On Sat, 12/18/10, Mark Ludlow <[email protected]> wrote: > If the IC exhaust is saturated at > 100C, the best the wood can do is reach an > equilibrium moisture content with respect to this > environment. _______________________________________________ The Gasification list has moved to [email protected] - please update your email contacts to reflect the change. Please visit http://info.bioenergylists.org for more news on the list move. Thank you, Gasification Administrator
