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Benefits
Even, Thorough, Rapid, and Gentle
Uniform inside temperature or zoned temperature regions give the closest product temperature control of any dryer possible. This can result in the lowest residual moisture of any dryer.
Gentle handling produces little dust or fines resulting in little product degradation, even with fragile materials such as crystals and pellets. The dryer provides a free-flowing product when other dryers produce material that cakes or sets-up in containers, silos, or railcars.
Benefits and Features
- Handles temperatures up to over 1000°F
- Precisely controlled temperature and residual time
- Easily adjusted and automatically maintained drying conditions
- Can adjust to varying feed rates
- Can operate with inert atmosphere recirculation with solvent recovery
- Operates as a dryer, cooler, reactor, heat treater, calciner, humidifier, agglomerator, sublimer, roaster, in combination if required.
- Environmentally sealed, and explosion-proof models
- The self-cleaning wiping action often eliminates the need for manual cleaning at product changeovers
- Easy startup and operation on different materials
- Low maintenance costs because of its unparalleled reliability
- Low energy costs. Low labor costs
- Can use any heating medium: steam, gas, electricity, oil, high temperature oil or waste gas from other operations
- Does low temperature drying as low as 60°F without vacuum or up to over 1000°F
- Available in laboratory sizes, package units, and large field erected sizes
- Manufactured in a wide range of materials
- Vertical construction, little space requirements. Outdoor or indoor installations
- Accurate scale-up from tests on a few pounds
Field Erected Units
The Komline-Wyssmont Turbo-Dryer® Delivers a very uniformly dried product because the material is intermittently redistributed with the plug-flow operation. A large 20 ft. (6m) diameter field-erected Turbo-Dryer® for drying and cooling various materials. Dryer sizes range up to 35 ft. dia. X 60 ft. high (10.6×18.2m) with an evaporative capacity of 25,000 lbs. water/hr (11.3 Metric Tons). Unique construction avoids massive foundations.
Drying with Solvent Recovery
The Komline-Wyssmont Turbo-Dryer® delivers a very uniformly dried product because the material is intermittently redistributed with the plug-flow operation. Komline-Wyssmont is predominant in the field of drying with solvent recovery. Compared with the batch solvent recovery dryers, which they often replace, these systems are safe, economical, and continuous and require almost no operator attention.
Their design is built around the special features of the Turbo-Dryer®, which is uniquely able to operate at atmospheric pressure with inert gas as the drying medium in a closed system. These systems have a reputation for safety and reliability. Many customers with broad experience in drying equipment will consider only Komline-Wyssmont systems when drying with solvent recovery. The Turbo-Dryer® consists of a stack of slowly rotating circular trays. Material is fed onto the top tray. After one revolution, the material is wiped onto the next lower tray where it is mixed, leveled, and then after one revolution, wiped to the next tray where the operation is repeated. The trays are contained in an enclosure in which heated air or gas is circulated by internal fans.
Small Units
Suitable for small-scale drying the Model “K” TURBO-DRYER® shown with side panels removed, can handle from 25 to 200 lbs. /hr. (11-90kg) continuously. Measuring 4′ (1.2m) in diameter and 5′ (1.5m) in height, this all stainless steel unit has the same features as the larger units. It can be used for specialty product applications for which batch unit operations (including those requiring vacuums) are often used, and for in-plant testing in order to confirm product quality and scale-up for larger commercial scale units.
Environmentally Sealed
A welded tank design for sealed operation to dry toxic and/or solvent-wet material. Also, for gas-solids reactions that need specific time-temperature histories or special atmospheres. The unit offers plug flow movement with gentle transfer to produce a highly uniform product without breakage.
Very low oxygen concentration, continuous self-compensating operation, close control of conditions in zones, and temperatures to 1200°F (650°C) are features that are built into these units.
Package Units
A “package” TURBO-DRYER® shipped completely assembled 24 shelves. Diameter: 6 ft. (1.8m). This unit, operating at 300°F (150°C), will dry approximately 150 lbs/hr (68kg/hr) of free-drying product from 30% moisture content to 0.5 %. Package unit sizes start at approx. 4 ft. diam. X 5 ft. high (1.2×1.5m) to 12 ft. diam. X 16 ft. high (3.6 x 4.8m).
Heat Treater/Calciner/Roaster
If long retention time or high degrees of product uniformity are necessary in a heating or cooling application, these units provide a compact, easily operated, reliable answer.
They are especially applicable to heating and cooling very fine powders, with minimum particle size segregation. They are available in designs up to over 1000°F (540°C).
Where specific time-temperature histories, gentle handling, or treatment in special atmospheres are desired, they provide solutions that are especially applicable to the problem.
Products Dried
Many products have been dried using the Turbo-Dryer®. A comprehensive, growing list of products dried using the Turbo-Dryer® is available below.
