Abstract: A method is described for drying wood combined into stacks (2) with the aid of a drying gas stream which flows through the wood stacks (2), which, by removing moist waste gas (8) after the wood stacks (2) and supplying fresh gas (9) before the wood stacks (2), is passed through the wood stacks (2) partially in circulation, wherein the wood is dried more rapidly with a moisture content above the fibre saturation than with a moisture content below the fibre saturation. In order to provide advantageous, economical drying conditions, it is proposed that before its slower drying with the aid of the drying gas stream guided partially in circulation, the wood is dried more rapidly with a drying gas stream consisting substantially only of fresh gas.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus is proposed for drying stacked wood with the help of a drying gas guided in a circulatory flow. The stacks of wood (H1, H2) are charged zone by zone depending on the average moisture of the wood (u) in the respective zone with partial streams of the drying gas which differ with respect to their drying power.