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.