Se realizaron experimentos a escala industrial tendiente a caracterizar el secado por alta temperatura del pino radiata (curvas de secado) y obtener parámetros físicos de fenómenos de transporte (coeficientes globales de convección de calor y masa) requeridos por los modelos matemáticos para la simulación fenomenológica del proceso de secado. Resultados de coeficientes de transporte y curvas de secado experimentales y simuladas fueron obtenidos. Se concluyó, que la simulación del proceso de secado por alta temperatura del pino radiata puede ser realizada satisfactoriamente por modelos fenomenológicos basados en el coeficiente global de transferencia de masa. Los valores de dicho coeficiente para diversas condiciones de secado variaron entre 1 x 10-4 y 4.2x10-4 kg/m2s. AbstractExperiments at industrial scale to show the high temperature wood drying of radiate pine were performed. After that, physical parameters of transport phenomena (global heat and mass transfer coefficients), required by the phenomenological mathematical models for the simulation of the drying process, were determined. Results of global heat transfer coefficients, experimental drying curves and simulated process were shown. It was concluded that the simulation of the drying process at high temperature of radiata pine can be satisfactorily carried out by phenomenological model based on the global mass transfer coefficient. The values of these coefficients were between 1 x 10-4 and 4.2 x 10-4 kg/m2s.