Belt dryer

A belt dryer (belt drier) is an apparatus which is used for continuous drying and cooling of woodchip, pellets, pastes, moulded compounds and panels using air, inert gas, or flue gas.
Working principle.
A Belt dryer / Belt cooler is a device designed for the particularly gentle thermal treatment of product. 
The wet product is continuously and evenly applied through an infeed chamber onto a perforated belt. The belt, predominantly in horizontal position, carries the product through the drying area which is divided into several sections. In these cells drying gas flows through or over the wet product and dries it. Each cell can be equipped with a ventilating fan and a heat exchanger. This modular design allows the drying and cooling temperatures to be controlled separately in the different sections. Thus, each dryer cell can be individually controlled and the drying / cooling air flow can be varied in each cell. In addition, the speed of the conveyor belt can be varied what gives an additional parameter for setting of drying time.
The cells can be heated or cooled directly or indirectly, and all heating media, such as oil, steam, hot water or hot gas can be used.
Belt dryers are ideally suited to drying almost any non-flowing product and more granular products that require a lower throughput capacity.
Design features.
Belt dryers / Belt coolers are designed in modular system. Each belt dryer consists of infeed hopper, conveyor belt and discharge end.
Different kinds of dryers are possible to construct, e.g.
Ventilation options.
In general there are two ways of gas flow pattern. The drying air can flow, according to the treatment process, either through or over the product.
Heat Sources.
HEAT EXCHANGERS:
OIL OR GAS FIRED BURNERS:
Typical applications.
Belt dryers are predominantly used in the following industries:
Product examples.
Wood chip, Veneers, wood fiber insulating boards, paints, molding materials, synthetic rubber, superabsorbent polymer, stearate, catalysts, coke, fruits, vegetables, cereals, Woodchip, Wood shavings, Wood pellets, Other feed pellets, Saw dust, Biomass straw, Miscanthus and bagasse, Herbs, Combinable crops, Beans and soya beans, Shredded recycled matter, Sewerage sludge & digestate, Flaked maize, Nuts, Fruit and fruit slices, Compost, Cotton rejects, Extruded pet foods, Finely ground wet chips, Grass, Grass seed, Orange peel, Pulp granulates, Solid shredded waste, Granular & shredded plastic, Poultry manure