Flash dryer for surface moisture removal in powders
Optimize moisture removal in heat-sensitive materials with rapid, uniform drying, ensuring your end-products maintain consistent quality and particle size distribution.
Removes Surface Moisture from Powders and Slurries
Dedert’s Flash Dryer system is engineered to streamline your moisture removal process for powders, slurries, and cakes. Its pneumatic drying and air conveying mechanism ensures rapid and uniform drying, making it essential for industries like plant-based proteins and biofuels. Operating continuously with high-speed efficiency, the flash dryer is capable of handling diverse applications, from corn starch to biodiesel production.
The system offers versatile temperature profiles and feed conditioning options, allowing integration with upstream processes like evaporators or crystallizers for comprehensive plant operations. Utilizing an Open-Circuit configuration, the flash dryer uses ambient fresh air to maintain product purity without contamination risks. For enhanced energy efficiency, Dedert offers a Partial Gas Recycle configuration, recycling most exhaust gases and integrating with a Gas Heated Evaporator for energy recovery, reducing overall operational costs.
Constructed with durable materials suitable for various industrial environments, the flash dryer’s design supports rigorous cleaning and maintenance protocols, ensuring high performance and longevity. Moreover, Dedert provides customization options and engineering support tailored to specific production needs, allowing seamless adaptation to existing production lines.
Benefits
- Ensures consistent product quality with uniform moisture content and particle size.
- Enhances energy efficiency by reusing exhaust heat in Partial Gas Recycle configuration.
- Minimizes contamination risks with clean air drying and indirect heat sources.
- Supports flexible integration with existing plant processes, increasing operational efficiency.
- Reduces maintenance downtime with robust construction and easy cleaning protocols.
- Applications
- Grains,Chemical,Plant-based protein,Food ingredients,Starch,Biofuel
- End products
- Powdered food additives,Corn starch,Ethanol,Protein-enriched animal feed,Powdered plant-based meat alternatives,Hydrolyzed vegetable protein,Pea protein isolate,Wheat gluten,Biodiesel,Adhesive chemicals
- Steps before
- Purification,Grinding,Feed Conditioning,Concentration
- Steps after
- Particle Size Distribution,Product Collection,Packing,Energy Recovery
- Input ingredients
- powders,pastes,cakes,slurries,fine materials,sticky materials,heat-sensitive materials
- Output ingredients
- high-quality final products,uniform moisture content products,consistent particle size distribution products
- Market info
- Dedert is known for its expertise in designing and supplying advanced drying and evaporation technologies, serving the chemical, food, and other processing industries with innovative and efficient engineered-to-order solutions.
- Drying time
- Short,a few seconds
- Temperature control
- Low heat environment
- Feed type
- Powders,pastes,cakes,slurries
- Configuration types
- Open-Circuit,Partial Gas Recycle
- Energy efficiency
- Improved with Partial Gas Recycle
- Automation
- System integration possible
- Solids residence time
- A few seconds
- Contact time with drying air
- One-pass arrangement
- Heat source
- Indirect (steam,electric),Gas turbines
- Working mechanism
- Pneumatic system with air conveying
- Integrated steps
- Simultaneous drying and conveying
- Feed conditioning
- Powders,pastes,cakes,slurries
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous (1-pass arrangement)
- Drying time
- Short residence time (few seconds)
- Temperature profile versatility
- Low heat environment at various temperatures
- Energy recovery capability
- Partial Gas Recycle (PGR) configuration
- Contamination risk
- Low due to indirect heating and ambient fresh air use
- Final product quality
- Uniform moisture content and consistent particle size
- Biological compatibility
- Compatible
- Cleanability
- Easy-to-clean
- Density/particle size
- 0.1–2.5 g/cm³ / 10–1000 µm
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Resistant
- Heat sensitivity
- Suitable
- Footprint
- Pneumatic system,compact
- Residency Time
- Several seconds
- Feed and Discharge Method
- Pneumatic feed,full discharge
- Temperature profile versatility
- Adjustable
- Feed conditioning
- Customizable
- Dispersion method
- Customized to product needs
- Configuration type
- Open-Circuit / Partial Gas Recycle
- Heat source
- Steam / Electric / Gas Turbine
- Energy recovery integration
- Gas Heated Evaporator
- Product collection system
- Customizable discharge points