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andrew heggie wrote:
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:14:41 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

air has to provide the heat to
change the state of the water from liquid to vapour.

No heat is required: All that is required is that the air is not saturated
with water.


It's simple physics, if you remove water by saturating or increasing the
RH of a volume of air you either provide heat at 2.3MJ/kg of water
vapourised or the air temperature drops.

Yes, but that happens naturally with *very* modest ventilation. The
latent heat of evaporation of a few kliograms of water is not exactly
massive..


I shall not comment on the your further naive assumptions about kiln
drying.


Whats up with you anyway?

Wrong time of the month?


AJH