A system and method for drying individual biomass units. Turbine exhaust heats ambient air to produce heated air, which passes through a conveyor system that carries a quantity of biomass product to an endpoint collection area. Heated air with fine product particles is ducted to a series of cyclonic particle separators and collected.

A veneer sheet feed device for multistage veneer sheet dryer is provided between an auto feeder including a carry-in conveyor and a roll dryer (veneer sheet dryer). The veneer sheet feed device is provided with a guide member and a feed conveyor for feeding a veneer sheet carried in from the carry-in conveyor to each conveyance unit of the roll dryer in this order from a conveyance up stream side. The veneer sheet feed device further provided with a pivot mechanism that allows a starting end of the guide member belonging to the conveyance stage immediately above the conveyance stage in which the veneer sheet is carried this time from the carry-in conveyor to pivot to a portion above a horizontal position of a roller shaft located at a terminal end of this guide member.

In order to provide a treatment installation for treating workpieces that is of simple construction and enables optimised workpiece treatment, it is proposed that the treatment installation should include a treatment chamber and a conveying device, by means of which the workpieces are suppliable to the treatment chamber, are removable from the treatment chamber, and/or are conveyable through the treatment chamber in a conveying direction.

Lumber drying kilns are provided that can include a ceiling member supported by opposing wall members and a pair of complimentary baffles extending vertically from about a junction of the wall and ceiling. Drying kilns are also provided that can include a junction between a wall and a ceiling above material to be dried within the drying kiln and at least one baffle extending vertically along the side of the material to be dried. Methods for retrofitting existing drying kilns are provided that can include extending vertical baffles from about a junction of a wall and ceiling of the drying kiln. Methods for drying material within a drying kiln are also provided that can include placing material to be dried within a drying kiln and drying the material within the kiln while a pair of vertical extending baffles hang along opposing walls of the kiln.

The invention relates to a method for drying moist products, in particular moist granules for producing pharmaceutical products through which a fluid medium flows in a reactor chamber of a bulk goods dryer and which are heated and placed on a fluid medium-permeable inflow base. The inflow base is vibrated via a vibrational drive in order to convey the products from a product inlet to a product outlet, and the fluid medium is supplied to separate chambers arranged upstream of an outlet and to the outlet after flowing through the inflow base and the product. One of the at least two separate chambers is preselectably closed off from the outlet by actuating a closing element such that after the closing element has been actuated, the supply of the fluid medium to the outlet is carried out via a chamber which is not closed by another closing element, and a fluid medium filter element paired with the closed chamber is cleaned via a pulse emitter after the closing element of said chamber is actuated in the closing direction while the fluid medium is continuously supplied to a non-closed chamber.

Systems and methods in accordance with the present invention provide for the efficient distillation of ethanol in an ethanol plant including a beer column. Heat is captured in the distillation process and utilized to drive operations in the ethanol plant.

This invention was designed to condense, separate and collect volatile compounds from the vapor steam as they exit the dehydrator. Bulk condensate is allowed to accumulate and separate in a separator vessel under vacuum. The undesirable water phase condensate is periodically drained into a water vessel, which is also held under vacuum instead of atmospheric pressure to avoid agitation and mixing of the contents of the separator vessel arising from purging the separator vessel to atmosphere. The separated and desirable oily condensates can then be easily recovered from the separator vessel.

An apparatus for drying bulk particulate material, and having an inlet chamber for receiving a moist bulk particulate material and an outlet chamber for ejecting a dry bulk particulate material. The inlet chamber comprises a steam permeable bottom being divided into a number of subsections including a first subsection and a second subsection. Each subsection defines a first and a second radial centreline. The first subsection and the second subsection each having at least one louvered plate section comprising a plurality of louvers arranged in a first and a second specific direction, respectively, for directing superheated steam in a first and second blowing direction, towards said lower cylindrical inner wall. The specific direction of the louvers of the first subsection defines a first angle in relation to the first radial centre-line, and specific direction of said louvers of said second subsection defines a second angle in relation to said second radial centreline, and said first angle and/or said second angle, being different from 0 degrees.

A mobile steel grit dryer used to dry steel grit may be configured with a number of different functions and features to assist a contractor in performing steel or other structure maintenance when using steel grit in resurfacing the structure. The steel grit dryer may be configured with a heat process vacuum bypass so that an off-board vacuum, such as a vacuum on a grit recycling system, may be utilized as opposed to having an onboard vacuum. The dryer may include multiple modes so that an operator may use different modes for different environmental conditions. An exoframe may provide for better durability when being transported to different jobsites. A variety of automation and safety features may also be provided to simplify and improve safety for operators.

The present invention relates to a drying system, and according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a drying system comprising a transfer conveyor for transporting particles, a particle dispersing device including a rotary member provided at one side of the transfer conveyor and having a rotation center, a drive part for rotating the rotary member and a particle supply part mounted on the rotary member having particles stored therein, and a heating part for drying the particles on the transfer conveyor in a transfer process, wherein the heating part comprises a heat exchanger and a blast fan, and is provided such that air discharged from the blast fan is supplied to the transfer conveyor after passing through the heat exchanger.