FEATURES & SPECIFICATIONS: (Patents Pending)

Capacity: Units range from 10 to 500 cubic metres of sawn timber. At any stage of your development, low cost add-ons are possible to increase capacity of each unit to meet business growth needs.

High Durability-Low Maintenance: Aluminium and stainless steel frames and components are durable and impervious to any type of corrosion. Fully fabricated robust engineered frames are available for large, type 8 units.

Roll On/Off Reloading: The entire kiln and fixtures simply roll over an adjacent timber charge that can be prepared at any stage during the lead up to being required. Depending on kiln size, changeover takes 5-30 minutes. The finished charge stands well clear of the kiln for unloading by forklift without need for kiln entry or trolleys. Our technology often produces more than faster same-sized technologies because of reduced loading downtime.

Supplementary Heating Options: Solar heating can be assisted by a range of optional gas, steam or hot water heating systems for uniform production under the worst seasonal climatic conditions.

Triple Skin Cladding: The outer covers are basically high quality ultra violet protected plastic film. They are inexpensively, routinely and easily replaced approx each 4-5 years. Using two separate inflation/ air circulation units, the three covers create two air cavities. The outer static air cavity forms an effective double-glazed insulation barrier. The inner cavity circulates air from kiln to kiln, collecting heat created by ultra violet absorption of the black inner “bubble-wrap” plastic cover. Note that the bubble wrap cover is a significant element of our vastly improved solar collection system.

Efficiency: Our R&D program has improved the already highly efficient 2002 models in terms of net energy captured and actually maintained for the process by a large degree.

Multi-functional Solar Heating System: Creates all or most of the heating energy for quick drying (conventionally) even in the worst solar environments. In warm to hot environments, our systems are unbeatable. Recent feature of our system is the automatic function of changing the solar collector to another insulation barrier when solar activity is non existent. Clients are always surprised at the amount of energy that can be created on extremely cold sunny days or when cloud cover is thick.

Circulation Fan Airspeeds: Speeds to 4.5 m/s depending on individual needs. Variable speed reversing fan options are available and standard for our advanced cyclic drying technology.

Smart-Vent: Fully automated system that overrides normal kiln humidity venting, eliminating wasteful venting when ambient humidity conditions are higher than the kiln. Earlier proponents of this system correctly suggested that this feature would improve heat energy performance by over 30%.

Solar-Banking: A system that relies on operator maximum temperature schedule inputs that, where wood properties make it possible allow surplus heat energy to be stored in the timber mass for use in the night ahead or to store surplus heat in the lumber until the next day and drying phase.

Multi-Mode Operation: Alternative drying schedules, accessible through the pc central control system include provision of a patented feature that allows the system to automatically respond to specific climate and process conditions by changing from solar mode only to supplementary heated mode; maximizing each option, reducing energy inputs and optimizing the process in general.

Main Operator Screen

Multi-Phase Operation: Patented features that provide and allow individual schedules to automatically deploy for each phase (periods of activity within a typically 24-hour cycle) for each mode of operation within any drying schedule.

Weather Station: Integrated with the control system to perform a number of new functions, this system incorporates ambient temperature, humidity, wind speed, barometric pressure and light intensity. A range of patented interactive functions surround this array.

Omron Scada Report Package: Routinely logs and stores all process, kiln and ambient condition details to enable process optimization and QC records. This facilitates our capacity to deliver offline control and technical support to all approved operations that enjoy our technology and service. (A virtual laboratory at every kiln site)

EBAL Function: This feature automatically calculates, selects and implements appropriately balanced kiln EMC conditions from a psychometric chart to maintain required differential and case mc limits WHEN the system detects wood conditions, the need for it and accordingly selects optimal timing to adopt it.

Online Alarms and Control: Modem allows for control software downloads and upgrades, maintenance, trouble shooting, offsite control and monitoring functionality.

....and that is only part of our exceptional technology!