Method and device for moisture profiling

US6425190B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Robert Wolf · Woodbury, US
• Markus Oechsle · Heubach, DE
• Wolfgang Mayer · Chieming, DE
• Roland Mayer · Heidenheim, DE
• Frank Wegehaupt · Ulm, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 10, 1999
• Grant date: Jul 30, 2002
• Expiry date: Sep 10, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F26B13/10
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method and device for moisture profiling of a fibrous material web to be dried in machines for manufacturing and/or refining this web that includes subjecting the fibrous material web to electromagnetic waves in the form of microwaves and/or high-frequency waves.