A poultry management device comprises a living area for the poultry, a collection device having a collection face for poultry droppings, the collection device being disposed below the living area, and a drying device configured for drying the poultry droppings on the collection device. The drying device comprises a fan element which is mounted so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis which is aligned at an angle of 45 to 90 in relation to the collection face.

Apparatus for pressing and drying a pre-defined amount of waste includes a metal main frame positioned to provide rigid support, and a body mechanically linked to the main frame through a plurality of linkage plates. The apparatus also includes an inlet vertically mounted on the body and a twin screw assembly to press and dehydrate the pre-defined amount of waste. A plurality of mesh screens is rigidly linked to the main frame along the longitudinal axis of the apparatus to remove compressed liquid. The body is also designed to support rotation of the twin screw assembly, and the inlet includes an ingress cross-sectional opening to receive the pre-defined amount of waste.

A cathodic protection system for use with a wood veneer dryer is provided. The system includes a DC power supply and an anode mounted inside the dryer in a position to be electrolytically coupled to metallic structures or surfaces inside the dryer when an electrolytic medium is present inside the dryer. The electrolytic medium comprises a high-humidity atmosphere. A method for reducing the corrosion of metallic structures or surfaces inside the dryer is further provided. The method comprises mounting an anode inside the dryer in a position to be electrolytically coupled to the metallic structures or surfaces inside the dryer when an electrolytic medium is present. Wood veneer is conveyed through the dryer and heated to a temperature sufficient to produce a high-humidity atmosphere inside the dryer. A controlled amount of current is supplied by the DC power supply to electrolytically couple the anode to the metallic structures or surfaces.

A drying machine for pasty and/or granular substances, which comprises a supporting frame for a plurality of superimposed conveyor belts, the frame being provided with lateral openings for the passage of air, each conveyor belt being supported by a plurality of spaced rollers which are pivoted to the frame, the rollers being surrounded by spacers which are adapted to define, between the rollers and the belt, air passage spaces to optimize the drying of the conveyed substances, each roller being surrounded by a single helical body with spaced turns that define the air passage space between the roller and the belt.

A cathodic protection system for use with a wood veneer dryer is provided. The system includes a DC power supply and an anode mounted inside the dryer in a position to be electrolytically coupled to metallic structures or surfaces inside the dryer when an electrolytic medium is present inside the dryer. The electrolytic medium comprises a high-humidity atmosphere. A method for reducing the corrosion of metallic structures or surfaces inside the dryer is further provided. The method comprises mounting an anode inside the dryer in a position to be electrolytically coupled to the metallic structures or surfaces inside the dryer when an electrolytic medium is present. Wood veneer is conveyed through the dryer and heated to a temperature sufficient to produce a high-humidity atmosphere inside the dryer. A controlled amount of current is supplied by the DC power supply to electrolytically couple the anode to the metallic structures or surfaces.

A wafer drying apparatus capable of preventing formation of a watermark is disclosed. The wafer drying apparatus includes: a conveying mechanism configured to convey a wafer in a drying chamber; an inert-gas jet nozzle disposed above the conveying mechanism and configured to form a descending jet of an inert gas; and a liquid suction nozzle disposed upstream of the inert-gas jet nozzle with respect to a conveying direction of the wafer. A distance between the liquid suction nozzle and a surface of the wafer when the wafer is being conveyed by the conveying mechanism is in a range of 1 mm to 2 mm.

The present invention relates to a livestock excrement sterilizing and drying system comprising including: a grinder for pulverizing livestock excrement so as to increase the drying efficiency for the livestock excrement; a transfer unit for transferring the pulverized livestock excrement; a drying chamber which dries the livestock excrement while rotating in a state where the livestock excrement transferred by the transfer unit is inserted therein; a combustion unit for allowing a combustion gas of a combustion device to be supplied into the drying chamber in order to dry the livestock excrement inserted into the drying chamber; a dried excrement discharge unit for discharging the livestock excrement which has been dried by the combustion gas of the combustion device and has a reduced volume; and an exhaust gas processing unit for filtering an exhaust gas generated in the process of drying the livestock excrement so as to discharge the exhaust gas to the air, wherein the livestock excrement dried in the drying chamber is not burned during heat-exchange with the combustion gas, but only moisture thereof is reduced and microorganisms and odors thereof are removed.

The invention relates to a method for producing a plastic granulate (16), in which a process fluid (12) is contained in a process chamber (10) where an underwater granulation takes place and the process fluid in the process chamber has a temperature greater than 120 C. A process pressure of at least 2.0 bar is obtained in the process chamber, at which a granulation of the plastic strands (14) into plastic granulate occurs. From the process chamber, a mixture (18) of process fluid and plastic granulate is diverted into a first cooling zone (25) during cooling of the plastic granulate, while maintaining the process pressure. In a first separating device (22), the plastic granulate is separated from the process fluid under process pressure. In the process chamber, the process fluid has a temperature in the range from 120 C. to 160 C., and the process pressure obtained there is greater than the pressure of the vapour pressure curve of the process fluid. After separation from the process fluid in the first separating device, the plastic granulate is fed continuously in a line to a dealdehydization container (46).

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.

The invention relates to the field of processing materials, and more particularly to a method for processing heat-sensitive materials in a vortex chamber, and can be used for drying, comminuting, heat treating and simultaneously separating into fractions such heat-sensitive materials as grass, straw, herbal raw material, vegetables and other materials, or mixtures of different plant materials, as well as for processing agricultural waste, in particular poultry droppings and horse or cow manure, into safe organic materials such as, for example, fertilizers. A vortex chamber contains a rotor for comminuting material and is designed to be volume-adjustable, wherein the lateral wall is configured in the shape of a right circular cylinder and the outer surface of the lateral wall and/or the lower wall of the vortex chamber are provided with additional openings for the removal of processed material. The invention is intended for obtaining several end products with different consumer properties (fineness, wetness, density, etc.) from a material, wherein said products can be obtained simultaneously.