Energy & Industrial
Digital-twin and reinforcement-learning control for industrial wood drying.
KilnSight optimizes industrial wood drying for any species and kiln configuration. A high-fidelity digital twin captures the coupled heat and mass transfer between the heat pump, kiln chamber, and wood moisture-stress behavior — and a multi-agent reinforcement learning policy generates drying schedules that adapt in real time to sensor data.
Digital twin-enabled multi-agent control for energy-efficient wood drying in desiccant-assisted heat pump systems
Bhatta, Waseem, Liu, Yang, O'Neill, Chang · Drying Technology · 2026
DOE DE-EE0010201
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