Heat drying is a topic that is often discussed with almost a cult style narrative that usually alarms my critical reader mind instantly and I move on since it seems to scream sales ad disguised as technical info.

As storms, hurricanes and floods become more frequent, the need to restore properties to a pre-loss condition faster and more efficiently will become more and more critical. As average temperatures across the globe have increased, more rain has fallen during the heaviest downpours.

In the structural drying industry, all drying utilizes heat drying in some form or another. Energy is required to clear the latent heat of vaporization—that is, the amount of energy necessary to convert a liquid into a gas.

The most important principle of drying is to understand the transfer of energy.

The RIA kicked off its “Safe Harbor Initiative” last month, a campaign designed to educate its members on the specifics of the settlement reached over the summer in the patent lawsuit settlement with ThermaPure. As part of this initiative, the RIA hosted a Virtual Town Hall webinar on Tuesday, November 11 to discuss details of the settlement and take questions from Association members.

DBK’s Drymatic System combines electric heat and air exchange to continuously measure temperature and humidity, thereby optimizing the drying process on water damage restoration jobs.

The year 2013 saw many research projects conducted at HSG CodeBlue’s Structural Drying Laboratory in Springfield, Ohio.

Structural drying is a simple concept: Remove excess moisture from wet materials that make up the structure until it reaches a reasonable approximation of a dry standard or goal.