A single-pass lumber drying kiln having a main drying chamber, a heat source to provide heat to the main drying chamber, a pre-heating chamber connected to a receiving side of the main drying chamber, the pre-heating chamber having a moisture collector and a kiln entrance, a conditioning chamber connect to an exit of the main drying chamber, the conditioning chamber having a moisture delivery system and a kiln exit, and fans arranged adjacent the pre-heating, conditioning, and the main drying chamber, wherein the fans adjacent the main-drying chamber and the conditioning chamber are synchronized together in a first set and the fans adjacent the pre-heating chamber are synchronized opposite.

A single-pass lumber drying kiln having a main drying chamber, a heat source to provide heat to the main drying chamber, a pre-heating chamber connected to a receiving side of the main drying chamber, the pre-heating chamber having a moisture collector and a kiln entrance, a conditioning chamber connect to an exit of the main drying chamber, the conditioning chamber having a moisture delivery system and a kiln exit, and fans arranged adjacent the pre-heating, conditioning, and the main drying chamber, wherein the fans adjacent the main-drying chamber and the conditioning chamber are synchronized together in a first set and the fans adjacent the pre-heating chamber are synchronized opposite.

A single-pass lumber drying kiln having a main drying chamber, a heat source to provide heat to the main drying chamber, a pre-heating chamber connected to a receiving side of the main drying chamber, the pre-heating chamber having a moisture collector and a kiln entrance, a conditioning chamber connect to an exit of the main drying chamber, the conditioning chamber having a moisture delivery system and a kiln exit, and fans arranged adjacent the pre-heating, conditioning, and the main drying chamber, wherein the fans adjacent the main-drying chamber and the conditioning chamber are synchronized together in a first set and the fans adjacent the pre-heating chamber are synchronized opposite.

Kiln design that uses a series of at least two subsections with airflow in constant but alternating directions instead of using bi-directional fans that periodically reverse directions. The uninterrupted alternating air flow may be used in continuous drying kilns (CDK) with two sets of carriages carrying spaced stacks of lumber travel in opposite directions through a sequence of chambers. The uninterrupted alternating air flow may be used with a set of at least one pathway for carriages carrying lumber to be dried where all carriages move from a first end of the kiln to a second end of the kiln.

A method for thawing of a transport transporting bulk material includes providing water vapor, introducing water vapor into a thawing chamber. The transport transporting bulk material and to be thawed is at least partially located in the thawing chamber. Air loaded with the water vapor and having a preset dew point temperature T.sub.T is generated in the thawing chamber, and the dew point temperature T.sub.T is adapted to the transport transporting bulk material.

In order to provide a treatment installation for treating workpieces that is of simple construction and enables optimised workpiece treatment, it is proposed that the treatment installation should include a treatment chamber and a conveying device, by means of which the workpieces are suppliable to the treatment chamber, are removable from the treatment chamber, and/or are conveyable through the treatment chamber in a conveying direction.

In order to provide a treatment installation for treating workpieces that is of simple construction and enables optimised workpiece treatment, it is proposed that the treatment installation should include a treatment chamber and a conveying device, by means of which the workpieces are suppliable to the treatment chamber, are removable from the treatment chamber, and/or are conveyable through the treatment chamber in a conveying direction.