Belt dryer cleaning system
Maximize drying efficiency and product quality with an advanced belt-washing system designed to enhance performance and longevity of belt dryers through optimal cleaning and reduced high-pressure water use.

Maximizes Drying Efficiency and Cleans Belt Dryers
The SmartCLEAN from ANDRITZ revolutionizes belt dryer maintenance with its innovative belt-washing technology. Designed for industries including biofuel, marine, and recycling, it enhances drying efficiency by ensuring product uniformity across dryer belts. The system operates using a rotating design that minimizes high-pressure water usage while extending belt life through optimal cleaning. Ideal for drying biomass pellets, sludge cakes, and textiles, SmartCLEAN supports continuous, automated operations integral to high-efficiency production lines. Easily retrofit onto existing equipment, this device simplifies maintenance with standard spare parts, significantly reducing downtime and increasing throughput.
Benefits
- Enhances product quality with uniform dryness across the belt.
- Minimizes water usage, cutting operational costs.
- Extends belt lifespan, reducing replacement frequency.
- Facilitates quick integration with existing systems, improving uptime.
- Lowers maintenance effort with easy access and standard parts.
- Applications
- Marine offshore, Separation technologies, Nonwoven and textile, Belt dryers, Biofuel, Environmental solutions, Recycling
- End products
- Dried algae, Dehydrated food products, Cotton fibers, Compost granules, Dried sludge cakes, Geotextiles, Dried biomass pellets, Sailcloths, Sewage sludge chips, Recycled plastic flakes
- Steps before
- Material loading, Pre-treatment
- Steps after
- Product cooling, Quality inspection
- Input ingredients
- moist materials, wet products
- Output ingredients
- dried materials, stable product dryness
- Market info
- ANDRITZ is known for its expertise in supplying industrial ETO equipment and services, specializing in sectors like pulp and paper, hydropower, and metals. It has a strong reputation for innovation and engineering excellence.
- Drying Efficiency
- Maximum
- Belt Cleaning Method
- Improved rotating design
- Water Usage
- Minimal high-pressure water
- Maintenance
- Easy
- Retrofit Ability
- Easy to retrofit
- Belt Lifetime Improvement
- Improved due to optimal cleaning
- Cleaning method
- Optimal rotating design
- Water usage
- Minimal high-pressure water
- Dryness consistency
- Stable over entire belt width
- Maintenance ease
- Easy with standard parts
- Retrofitting capability
- Easy to retrofit
- Belt lifetime
- Improved due to optimal cleaning
- Cleanability
- Easy maintenance with standard spare or wear parts
- Abrasion resistance
- Improved belt lifetime thanks to optimal cleaning
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Stable product dryness over the whole belt width
- Control panel type
- Standard
- Integration possibilities
- Easy to retrofit