CURING ROOMS

[stonemason101]

I am based In South Africa and am difficulty finding advice on how to build my own steam/vapour curing room for reconstituted marble products. Can anyone assist or point me in the right direction?

 

[steamdog]

If you have any Lumber mills, lumber drying is a similar application and you may get some ideas there...

 

[stonemason101]

Thanks for the reply! would like to know what equipment and controls are required to run a constant vapour/steam system

 

[steamdog]

Some do it on temperature and others on pressure, depends on the type of curing room you have. the main problem consideration is humidity and temperature. When you let steam into a room it goes through a pressure drop, superheating slightly, actually dropping humidity and adding lot of BTU's (temperature). Some add water to the mix. Really depends on exactly the temp and humidity you need for your cure.

 

[stonemason101]

I am aware of the requirements for creating the vapour/steam chamber, but need to know if there are "off the shelf products/equipment" that one can purchase to give the heat and steam required

 

[ornerynorsk]

There may be stock equipment available. Walnut lumber for one, is steamed during the kiln-drying process in order to bring out the grain colour of the heartwood.

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