Equipment Spotlight Equipment spotlight: Dryers The newest drying technology available for Canada’s wood pellet industry Staff Report STELA www.stela.de Stela low-temperature belt dryer is a highly efficient drying process which can be used in many different indus-trial segments and product lines, including for pellets and microchips, particle board, OSB-strands and sawdust, sewage sludge, digestate, and bark, wood chips and wood off-cuts. Stela’s low-temperature belt dryer for pellets and microchips realizes defined residual moisture of 8 to 12 per cent for the production of pellets and wood briquettes. The dryer utilizes low-calorific heat from cogenera-tion and ORC processes, and can be applied in pellet plants and sawmills. The dryer increases energy efficiency by circulating air system and vapours condensation. PLAYER DESIGN INC. www.playerdesign.net cost-effective and environmentally com-pliant performance, responsive to even the most stringent guidelines. Our cus-tomized solutions use advanced tech-nology to ensure a consistent, quality finished product, giving our customers a competitive edge. KAHL PDI offers complete drying island pack-ages including equipment supply, design and installation. PDI drying systems are designed to meet the diverse needs of today’s manufacturers. The result is innovative equipment that provides www.akahl.de/en With the new KAHL Fabric Belt Driers the input material and the throughput capacities vary significantly. The product is turned over in the drier by means of specially adapted devices so that a very uniform final moisture con-tent of the product is obtained. A dis-tinctive feature of the KAHL fabric belt drier is the special, tightly woven plastic Canadian BIOMASS 25
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