Waste Heat Treatment from Wood Seasoning Plant Mitesh Kumar Chaudhary Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Engineering, IASE D University, Sardarshahr

At Present in India and all over the world, wood is the first choice to make furniture for houses, offices and for industry. To make a good furniture wood should be dry and chemically treated to protect from termite. This treatment is done at wood seasoning plants where first, wood is chemically treated in chemical tank for 1–2 days and second, chemically treated wood is placed in seasoning chamber to dry it for 2 weeks. Saturated steam is used in chamber to dry the wood. This steam is produced by a baby boiler in which water used to produce steam and wood scrap is used as fuel. Steam is passes through the pipes and fins in chamber where fans circulate heated air in chamber evenly and remove moisture from wood. During this process they burn lots of fuel and use temperature and pressure of steam above their need. In this paper we steam turbine between boiler and seasoning chamber to use this extra temperature and pressure to produce electricity for the plant. The steam exhausted from the turbine will have sufficient temperature and pressure that can be used to dry the wood in chamber. Wood Seasoning Plants have generator as backup of electricity. They usually run generator 2–3 hrs per day. If they generate their own electricity they won't need the generators that will reduce the pollution due to generators and can save their daily p.u cost of electricity.