Read All About: Fluid Bed Dryers

What is a Fluid Bed Dryer?

A Fluid Bed Dryer is found in batch and continuous processes, using gas or heated air to dry certain products. The equipment effectively forces the products to behave like a fluid as they move through the machine from the feed inlet to an outlet which discharges the dried and finished products. Different zones can allow for heating and cooling as needed, with each zone controlled by the process.

Used equipment can cut costs for companies looking to acquire a fluid bed dryer. Manufacturers can use a fluid bed dryer for an activity like preparing powder, where the device dries and separates the power before cooling it at the end of the process to allow packaging.

The equipment includes a large processing chamber with a perforated plate through which heated air or gas can pass. As products are fed in, they float on the gas, receiving maximum surface contact with the heat so they dry quickly and evenly. Some machines also have heater bars to increase the temperature and speed the process still further. Materials in the fluid bed dryer behave similar to a boiling liquid, bubbling along the length of the chamber until they reach the far side, where they can be discharged. The product flows across a perforated bed while hot air blows through the bed. Continuous dryers vibrate to move the product while batch dryers use agitators. Production is measured typically in Kg/Hr.

Fluid Bed Dryers at Perry Process Equipment Ltd:

Perry Process Equipment can save you up to 70% on a used or refurbished dryer compared to the cost of a new dryer. We stock a wide range of dryers on site including spray dryers, rotary dryers, fluid bed dryers, freeze dryers (lyophilizers) and drum dryers to work in a wide variety of processes including direct or indirect, atmospheric or vacuum, and continuous or batch drying processes. You can find 100s of high quality dryers at our Newton Aycliffe site, from manufacturers including Niro Aeromatic, Calmic, Glatt, Edwards, Cogeim, Comber, Guedu, Mitchell, Rosenmund, Stord, Atlas, Andritz, Pfaudler, De Dietrich and Krauss Maffei.

We offer a large inventory of used dryers for the food, dairy, beverage, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. Our dryers are available in many diameters, dimensions and capacities.

Call us now on: +44 (0) 1325 315 111 and we will answer your process queries or you can view our inventory online.

Please also take a look at our other used process equipment categories – Centrifuges, Heat Exchangers, Mixers, Reactors, Tanks. 

Read All About: Heat Exchangers

What is a Heat Exchanger?

A Heat Exchanger is a piece of equipment built for efficient heat transfer from one medium to another. Heat Exchangers are used for the transfer of heat or cold between two fluids for the purpose of heating the process, cooling the process or condensing vapours during the process. Heat Exchangers can also be known as Condensers, are pressure and temperature rated and can be horizontally or vertically orientated. They are widely used in space heating, refrigeration, air conditioning, power plants, chemical plants, petrochemical plants, petroleum refineries, natural gas processing, and sewage treatment. The classic example of a Heat Exchanger is found in an internal combustion engine in which a circulating fluid known as engine coolant flows through radiator coils and air flows past the coils, which cools the coolant and heats the incoming air.

There are several different types of Heat Exchangers in the process industry. These include: shell and tube, plate, spiral and air cooled and compoblock Heat Exchangers. A shell and tube Heat Exchanger has an external cylinder called a shell with internal tubes that run the length of the shell. There are tube sheets on each end of the tubes sealing the shell around the tubes and there are covers on each end called heads which can come in several configurations. Basic principal of operation is that one fluid flows through the tube and the other fluid flows around the tubes; the large number of tubes in the bundles offer extensive contact surfaces which facilitate quick and efficient thermal transfer. The fluid inside the tubes can flow in a single pass or multiple passes using baffles in the heads. Another type of heat exchanger is the plate Heat Exchanger. One is composed of multiple, thin, slightly separated plates that have very large surface areas and fluid flow passages for heat transfer. This stacked-plate arrangement can be more effective, in a given space, than the shell and tube Heat Exchanger.

There are three primary flow arrangements with Heat Exchangers: counter-flow, parallel-flow, and cross-flow. In the counter-flow exchanger, the fluids enter the exchanger from opposite sides. This is the most efficient design because it transfers the greatest amount of heat. In the parallel-flow version, the fluids come in from the same end and move parallel to each other as they flow to the other side. The cross-flow Heat Exchanger moves the fluids in a perpendicular fashion.

Heat Exchangers at Perry:

Perry Process Equipment Ltd are the largest stockists of used Heat Exchangers and Condensers for use in the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries and can save you up to 70% when compared to the cost of a new unit. We have been buying and selling used equipment for over 80 years, so you can trust our expertise.



Used CICR Heat Exchanger - Stock number: L1056-01



We have 100s of used Heat Exchangers in stock including air cooled, fin tube, plate type, karbate, scraped surface, shell & tube, spiral heat, tube in tube, alloy, carbon and stainless steel. Our Heat Exchangers are available in horizontal or vertical orientation, in many diameters, dimensions and capacities.

You can find a wide range of high quality Heat Exchangers at our Newton Aycliffe site, from manufacturers including Aset, Thies, APV, Johnson Hunt, SSC, Zeta, Applied Fusion, Alfa Laval and Canzler.

View our inventory online or call us now on: +44 (0) 1325 315111.

To learn more about NEW Heat Exchangers manufactured by our affiliate, Perry Products Corp, whether in stock or fabricated to your specifications, click here to go to the Perry Products site.

Regional Growth Fund - Assisted Asset Purchase Scheme

Are you aware that your business can get funding to help you purchase used process machinery?

HSBC Bank Plc (HSBC) is participating in the Government's Regional Growth Fund (RGF), a £2.4 billion fund which will operate across England until 2015. HSBC will receive £25 million from the fund to support businesses which have a turnover of up to €50 million and that are recruiting new employees or are safeguarding existing jobs as well as purchasing new fixed assets, which includes your process machinery.

Could you benefit from the RGF Assisted Asset Purchase Scheme?  

YES: 

• If you are an existing HSBC customer and you are wanting to purchase an asset but lack a sufficient deposit, and
• If you are creating additional employment or you will retain jobs that could have otherwise been lost within 12 months.

About the RGF and the Assisted Asset Purchase Scheme

The RGF supports projects and programmes that lever private sector investment creating economic growth and sustainable employment.

The Assisted Asset Purchase Scheme has been created to enable qualifying businesses the chance to obtain funding towards the purchase of assets where they would not ordinarily be eligible due to the lack of sufficient stake.

RGF monies take the form of a grant. The asset purchase scheme will be funded using a suitable HSBC Equipment Finance product and the rate of interest can be fixed or variable.

You choose the supplier of the asset and negotiate as if you were a cash buyer, with all the associated financial advantages without buying the asset outright.

How to find out more.

To discuss how your company could benefit from Regional Growth Funding and discuss your options, please contact your HSBC Manager or call 0845 607 6007. Further details on the RGF can be read on the HSBC website.

Used Process Equipment can save you up to 70% compared with the cost of new equipment.

You can search the Perry Process Equipment used process equipment inventory online or call our office +44 (0)1325 315111 to discuss your equipment requirements.