[esp-r] Re: Simulating solar sewage drying (something similar)

[Jon Hand (clcv10)]

Those of you who are longer in the tooth might remember that
ESRU had a visiting PhD from Malaysia who did research
on solar driven wood drying and he implemented a model of
how wood dried within ESP-r.

Only real issue at the time
was that machines were slow, the simulation needed to
run for a four month period and the flow rates in the dryer
were such that it required 3000 timesteps per hour on the
building solver for the method to work.  We wondered if
the run would ever finish....

So something sort of related was done in the past (but
by someone who had a detailed opinion as to how
moisture transfer within green timber should be
treated).  Perhaps there is someone out there who
has a similar knowledge about drying processes
in another medium...... ;-)

-Jon Hand