Rotary drum dryers are one of the most widely used types of industrial dryers on the market today. Their heavy-duty design, high throughput, long-term reliability, and simple operation has lent them to a wide range of applications in a variety of industrial process settings. They …
Rotary drum dryers are an essential production tool in a variety of industrial settings. From ore drying to fertilizer and soil amendment production, rotary dryers are used to process thousands of tons of material each and every day throughout nearly every industry imaginable. While the …
What is Metallurgical Coke? Aka: coke, met coke Metallurgical coke is created through the destructive distillation of coal or coal blends. This thermal treatment drives off volatile components and leaves behind a solid carbon material (note that this is different from petroleum coke, which is …
Feasibility testing for drum drying processes offers valuable information when designing an industrial drying system. Feasibility testing offers the opportunity to confirm the viability of your intended process, as well as to work out process variables and other unknown data points, helping to define a …
A rotary dryer’s flights, or material lifters, work by lifting the material and dropping it through an air steam. This process creates a curtain, or a shower of material spanning the width of the drum’s interior. The curtain maximizes heat transfer between the material and …
This week’s highlighted resource is a Slideshare presentation on rotary dryer sizing and design. The Rotary Dryer Sizing and Design slide deck is a great introduction to the complex process of designing a custom rotary dryer for any industry. Material characteristics that affect design, processing …
This week’s highlighted resource is a web page on spent carbon reactivation. Activated carbon is increasingly becoming more popular as an adsorbent in many applications. One benefit to this amazing adsorbent is its ability to be reactivated and reused. This page covers the process of …
Direct and indirect-fired rotary dryers are used in a variety of industrial settings to dry bulk solids. While the two are both comprised of a rotating drum and function to reduce a material’s moisture, several differences between direct and indirect dryers exist: Operation: direct-fired dryers …
Rotary dryer shells can be constructed from a variety of materials, including: Carbon steel Stainless steel Hastelloy Inconel And other alloys Dryer shells can also be tailored in many ways, depending on the material and process requirements of the customer. For example, shell thickness can …
With applications in everything from energy, infrastructure, and aerospace, to automotive, packaging, and more, aluminum has become a cornerstone of modern society. Aluminum’s widespread use might infer ease of accessibility, but such is not the case; aluminum is not found freely in nature, requiring the …