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Fluid Beds and Rotary Dryers and Coolers Brochure

Fluid Beds and Rotary Dryers and Coolers Brochure
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Fluid beds and rotary dryers and coolers

Potash rotary dryer Phosphate rotary dryer Fluid beds and rotary dryers and coolers Drying is the removal of water from solids, liquids or Metso rotary dryers Rotary dryers are slightly inclined cylindrical shells supported by two gases. In almost all industries, at some step in the riding rings running on a set of rollers. Rotary dryers are suitable for process, material needs to be dried. Drying can be drying a wide range of materials because of their ability to process the beginning, intermediate or final step in the materials having considerable variation in size and composition....

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Nickel ore rotary dryer Fluid beds The term “fluidized bed” usually refers to a bed of finely divided solids through which a gas is passing and which is in a state between that of a static bed and one where all the solids are suspended in the gas stream, as in pneumatic conveying. The introduction of an appropriate gas flow into the material bed brings about the onset of fluidization. Bubbles of gas pass through the bed of material creating a condition of rapid mixing. The bed has the appearance of a vigorously boiling liquid, and in fact the bed of material takes on many of the properties...

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Stainless steel steam tube dryer Steam heated aluminum hydrate fluid bed dryer. Indirect systems Indirect drying systems are used when the material to be dried cannot come into contact with the combustion gases normally used in drying. This situation often exists in chemical and agricultural situations, but also in some mineral and waste applications. Steam tube dryers Steam tube dryers have a series of tubes running down the length of the rotating shell and passing through the bed of feed material. Steam passes into the tubes, condenses and uniformly heats the feed material. All of the...

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Combined rotary indirect dryer and cooler Experience is key Metso has supplied over 4,000 dryers for over 400 different materials for operations around the world. This experience translates into better performance, higher availability and easier maintenance. Materials act differently during drying. They may be sticky when being fed to the dryer, or they may become sticky during drying. They may agglomerate during drying, or become dust. In some cases the material needs to be dried completely, “bone dry”, and in some cases the material is only partially dried. Metso has experience in all of...

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• Metso Minerals Industries Inc. 350 Railroad Street, Danville, PA 17821-2046, USA, Phone: +1 570 275 3050, Fax: +1 570 275 6789 • Metso Minerals Industries, Inc. 2715 Pleasent Valley Road, York, PA 17402, USA, Phone: +1 717 843 8671 • etso Minerals (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd. M Private Bag X2006, Isando, Johannesburg,1600, South Africa, Phone: +27 11 961 4000, Fax: +27 11 397 2050 • Metso Minerals (Australia) Ltd. Level 2, 1110 Hay Street, West Perth, WA 6005, Australia, Phone: +61 8 9420 5555, Fax: +61 8 9320 2500 • Metso Minerals (India) Pvt Ltd 1th floor, DLF Building No. 10, Tower A, DLF...

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