A method of treating a material to recover an oil from the material comprises heating the material to evaporate the oil, removing gas phase fluids from the material, and separating the oil from the gas phase fluids removed from the material, wherein the method includes mixing hot vapor with the material. The material being treated in the chamber is heated by friction within the chamber generated by a rotating shaft and flail. Injection of hot vapor improves the efficiency of the process to separate oil and any other evaporable liquids at lower temperatures. The thermal energy generated within the chamber is not consumed in changing the phase of large quantities of liquids in the material, and more of the energy generated is available to heat up the material and evaporate the oil fractions from the solids.

The present invention proposes a drying tower with grain flow in parallel and sinuous in combination with reverse and radial crossed air flows in form of Z oblique for the implementation in the drying of grains, seeds, fodder, and fruit. Therefore, the grains are firstly submitted to a first stage of parallel grains flow and reverse crossed air flow in order to standardize the different degrees of humidity of the grains and of their impurities. In a second moment, these grains are submitted to a sinuous grains flow and radial air flow in the form of oblique Z. Such implementation in drying processes of grains upgrades substantially the drying time and the energy spent for such process, generating in this way profit for the food industries.

The invention relates to a method and a bioreactor for drying biogenic residues to a dry mass comprising filling the residues into a bioreactor filled with spheres and mixing the spheres and the residues so that films of the residues form on the surfaces of the spheres, drying the films of residues with the formation of crusts of dry mass with a residual water content on the surfaces of the spheres by feeding a drying medium into the bioreactor,

grinding and further drying the dry mass by mixing and grinding off powdery dry mass from the spheres.

An apparatus, a system, and a method for heat treating a moisture-containing or water-laden material are provided. The heat treatment can be drying for dehydration, gasification, or full carbonization. The system comprises a feeding mechanism, and a rapid compression unit (RCU) apparatus having a screw, a barrel, and one or more flow disrupters. The system can further include a reflux condenser, an aftercooler stage, a second condenser for particle filtering, and an exit mechanism. The one or more flow disrupters are located on an inner surface of the barrel and project into the passageway created by the screw and the barrel. The screw is sized to fit within the barrel such that flow disrupter does not contact the screw. The one or more flow disrupters cause the water-laden material to fold over onto its self, thereby, allowing for the occurrence of more uniform drying.

An apparatus, a system, and a method for heat treating a moisture-containing or water-laden material are provided. The heat treatment can be drying for dehydration, gasification, or full carbonization. The system comprises a feeding mechanism, and a rapid compression unit (RCU) apparatus having a screw, a barrel, and one or more flow disrupters. The system can further include a reflux condenser, an aftercooler stage, a second condenser for particle filtering, and an exit mechanism. The one or more flow disrupters are located on an inner surface of the barrel and project into the passageway created by the screw and the barrel. The screw is sized to fit within the barrel such that flow disrupter does not contact the screw. The one or more flow disrupters cause the water-laden material to fold over onto its self, thereby, allowing for the occurrence of more uniform drying.

The present invention relates to a processing system (0) intended to dehydrate food waste (4) comprising at least one device (200) for storing and heating food waste (4) comprising at least one device for stirring the food waste (4), a direct contact heat exchange condenser (34) comprising an opening (37) for extracting incondensable gases from the condenser (34), a first pipe (3) allowing direct communication between the storage device (200) and the condenser (34) to allow the passage of gaseous effluents (22) particularly comprising steam, produced by the heating of said food waste (4) in the waste storage and heating device (200), to the direct contact heat exchange condenser (34), where the steam condenses in contact with a shower of the coolant liquid. The recycling of heat between the condenser (34) and the device (200) for storing and heating food waste is provided by a heat pump (6).

The present invention relates to a processing system (0) intended to dehydrate food waste (4) comprising at least one device (200) for storing and heating food waste (4) comprising at least one device for stirring the food waste (4), a direct contact heat exchange condenser (34) comprising an opening (37) for extracting incondensable gases from the condenser (34), a first pipe (3) allowing direct communication between the storage device (200) and the condenser (34) to allow the passage of gaseous effluents (22) particularly comprising steam, produced by the heating of said food waste (4) in the waste storage and heating device (200), to the direct contact heat exchange condenser (34), where the steam condenses in contact with a shower of the coolant liquid. The recycling of heat between the condenser (34) and the device (200) for storing and heating food waste is provided by a heat pump (6).

A vacuum drying device and a related method thereof are provided. The device includes a box body, where a bottom end of the box body is provided with a base, and a top end of the box body is communicated with a vacuumizing pipeline. A lifting mechanism is arranged in the base, and a top end of the lifting mechanism is fixedly connected with a table top. A plurality of drying mechanisms are arranged on the table top, and top ends of the drying mechanisms are fixedly connected with a take-up mechanism. The take-up mechanism is connected with a powder collecting mechanism, the take-up mechanism is fixedly connected with the box body, and the take-up mechanism is connected to a wire collecting mechanism. The wire collecting mechanism is connected to a powder collecting mechanism, and the wire collecting mechanism is fixedly connected to the vacuumizing pipeline.

A vacuum drying device and a related method thereof are provided. The device includes a box body, where a bottom end of the box body is provided with a base, and a top end of the box body is communicated with a vacuumizing pipeline. A lifting mechanism is arranged in the base, and a top end of the lifting mechanism is fixedly connected with a table top. A plurality of drying mechanisms are arranged on the table top, and top ends of the drying mechanisms are fixedly connected with a take-up mechanism. The take-up mechanism is connected with a powder collecting mechanism, the take-up mechanism is fixedly connected with the box body, and the take-up mechanism is connected to a wire collecting mechanism. The wire collecting mechanism is connected to a powder collecting mechanism, and the wire collecting mechanism is fixedly connected to the vacuumizing pipeline.

A combination of components is provided for use in making asphalt concrete from a plurality of aggregate material streams. The combination includes an indirect dryer for heating aggregate material from a first material stream without directly exposing said first stream material to hot gases of combustion. The combination also includes a mixer for mixing aggregate material from the first material stream, aggregate material that has not been heated in the indirect dryer from a second material stream, and a binder component to produce asphalt concrete.