Efficient contact drying of liquids containing solids with the Disc Dryer CDry
The Allgaier CDry disc dryer efficiently dries liquid products containing solids in suspension creating solid, dried material. The advantage of the CDry lies in the large heat transfer surface area combined with a compact footprint, thus allowing you to recover valuable solids from your process effectively on a small cost per square foot basis.
In addition to the smallest dryer size CDry 501 lab, which is particularly suitable for laboratory applications and for drying very small quantities, another model series is available for production applications. With the additional product group CDry food, not only the existing industries in the field of chemistry, waste water technology, pigment production etc.
A liquid containing the solids you wish to recover is filled from the external product feed tank into the CDry’s integrated circulation tank. The suspension/solution is conveyed to individual feed pipes by a circulation pump. Each feedpipe discharges liquid product to one side of the heated rotating discs. Any amount of liquid that does not adhere to the disc returns to the circulation tank for reapplication over the drying disks. During one disc revolution, the solvent (e.g. water) contained in the liquid product evaporates. The dried solid material adhering to the heated disc is scraped off with knives before the rotation is completed. The degree of final product dryness can be influenced by the speed of the disk rotation and the temperature of the steam heating the disc.The resulting dry product is conveyed out of the dryer via the product discharge system.