Equipment Spotlight Drying solutions on offer for Canadian biomass producers Staff Report environmental applications in Wyssmont’s long history. Other related applications in-clude recovery of oil and carbon black from the heat treatment of rubber tires. The Wyss-mont Turbo Dryer thermal processor has recently added to its accomplishments: the first torrefaction dryer in the U.S. www.wyssmont.com EARTH CARE PRODUCTS Biomass dryers ECP’s patented Z8 Rotary Dryer is the heartbeat of its proprietary process equip-ment for dehydration of all forms of bio-mass. The patented reverse-flow, imping-ing-stream dryer design with increasing thermal-velocities provides maximum heat-transfer offering multi-stage dehy-dration within drum embodiment. The material first passes through a single-pass section and then through a reverse-flow triple-pass section, and then repeats the process. The patented design provides uniform dehydration of all particle sizes with no overheating of fines with increased production capacity while minimizing VOC emissions. The Z8 Rotary Dryer can be designed as a drop-in replacement for existing Single-Pass and Conventional Triple-Pass Rotary Dryers. www.ecpisystems.com WYSSMONT and animal bedding markets. From feasibili-ty studies and engineering, to equipment supply, to turnkey manufacturing opera-tions, PDI offers comprehensive support for all the wood products industry’s drying and energy needs. www.playerdesign.net DIEFFENBACHER The Wyssmont Turbo Dryer thermal pro-cessor has long been producing solvent re-covery systems, heat recovery systems, and environmentally sealed dryers that may be especially designed with condensers or scrubbers for products such as biomass, biofuels and biowaste. Ap-plications with biomass, biofuels, biowaste that may emit toxic gases when pyrolyzed, are only a few of the alternative energy and Dieffenbacher high-capacity drum dry-ers are well recognized for their efficiency and reliability. They are the ideal solution for drying of wood particles for particle-board and pellet production, strands for OSB production, disintegrated seasonal annual crops and other biomass. The dry-er internals are designed according to the material characteristics for high thermal efficiency and low moisture fluctuation. Dieffenbacher drum dryers meet high safety standards. The perfect integration of energy system and drum dryer creates ad-ditional value for customers, from the plan-ning phase through the complete lifecycle. www.dieffenbacher.de/en PDI THOMPSON DRYERS PDI specializes in the design and supply of custom rotary dryers and energy systems for the wood products industry. PDI’s exclusive burner technology utilizes either green or dry fuel. Combined with single pass dryers, PDI delivers a drying and energy system that is cost-competitive and versatile. PDI offers a custom solution for manufacturers in the engineered wood products, wood pellet, A Thompson Biomass Dryer System dries temperature-sensitive, organic materials safely at a high capacity with thermal effi-ciency around 85 per cent with minimal air pollution, little material degradation and low fire risk. Thompson Dryers offers the most cost-effective and energy-efficient biomass dryer available today. Designed to operate for 8,400 hours per year, Thompson biomass dryers are fabricated to the same rigid criteria that has kept some Thompson systems running continuously for over 60 years. With Thompson’s proprietary internal flighting package, the dryer is able to dry both small and large chips in your product feed uniformly, inside and out, to the desired dryness. www.thompsondryers.com NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 26 Canadian BIOMASS
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