Drying
Technology
With a comprehensive range of contact dryers for a broad range of feed products
Drying
Technology
With a comprehensive range of contact dryers for a broad range of feed products
International leader in drying technology
SMS offers customised contact drying technologies to dry solutions, suspensions, slurries, pastes, filter cakes and moist granules. Our technical solutions are based on our longstanding experience from a huge number of industrial applications and tests in our test center.
The main feature in contact drying is the direct heat transfer through the contact of the product with the heating surface. Hence, hot air is not required in contact drying. Therefore, outlet air treatment is minimised and there are no energy losses with air leaving the system. Our product portfolio includes a comprehensive range of contact dryers in order to apply the advantages of contact drying to a broad range of feed products:
Design criteria for our dryers are
- Liquid content of feed product
- Temperature sensitivity of product
- Residence time and residence time distribution
- Device cleaning
- Product quality requirements like dry solid content and particle properties
- Availability of utilities
- Operational safety
- Maintenance
- Reliability
Typical applications and features
- No need for carrier gas
- Virtually no outlet air treatment
- Heat recovery
- Straightforward vapour condensation
- No back-mixing of product, direct feeding and direct drying
- Evaporation of high-boiling solvents
- Drying of temperature-sensitive products