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China Tumble Rotary Drum Dryer -Single Pass Vs Triple Pass

Rotary drum dryer for drying wood chips, shavings, sawdust and other wood based materials, to make their final mositure is suitable for making wood based panel product.
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  • MH-RD26

  • MINGHUNG

  • 841939

Do you know what is the Difference between Single-pass dryer and Three-pass dryer?


Function of Rotary Drum Dryer 
Chips Dryer Rotary or Flash Dryer System

Rotry dryer is Widely used in wood processing, biomass energy, particleboard production and other industries of continuous drying equipment, mainly used to dry wood chips, sawdust, shavings and other wood chips, so that its moisture content from **30%~60%** to **8%~15%** to meet the needs of subsequent processing or fuel use.

The working principle of Drum dryer:

Wood chip drum dryer through the combination of hot air convection and drum rotation to achieve efficient drying, its work flow is as follows:

1. Feed: Wet wood chips are fed into the feed end of the drum through the screw conveyor or belt.

2. Hot air contact: high temperature hot air (150~400℃) and wood chips in the roller direct or indirect contact,  evaporation of water.

3. Tumble drying: The roller is equipped with Lifters, so that the sawdust is continuously thrown and the heat exchange area is increased.

4. Discharge: the dried wood chips are discharged from the discharge end, and the exhaust gas is discharged after dust removal




The Comparison of Single-pass dryer and Triple-pass dryer 
MINGHUNG Particle Drying System For OSB Production Line
Rotary Drum Dryer


-Single pass dryer

  Structural features:

- Single-layer drum: Materials and hot air are dried in a single drum.

- Lifting plate design: Internal installation of L-shaped or lifting plate, turning shavings to increase the thermal contact area.

- Hot air flow direction: Can be configured to flow (same direction) or countercurrent (reverse)

   Advantages: 

- Simple structure: low maintenance cost, low failure rate.

- Strong adaptability: Can handle different particle sizes of shavings (0.5~5mm).

- Low investment cost: Suitable for small and medium-sized production lines (production capacity ≤10t/h)


-Triple pass dryer

   Structural features:

- Three-layer sleeve: The material is successively passed through the inner, middle and outer three layers of drums, and the hot air is recycled many times.

- Hot air classification heating: Hot air (400℃) first contact the innermost layer of high humidity material, layer by layer cooling to the outer layer (about 120℃).

- Lifting system: Each layer of independent lifting board, optimize the material throwing path.

   Advantages

- High thermal efficiency: exhaust gas temperature can be reduced to 80~100℃, heat utilization rate of 75%~85%.

- Significant energy saving: 20%~30% energy saving compared to the single channel dryer.

- Uniform drying: multi-layer slow Su drying, the final moisture content is more stable (±1%).


- The Comparison of Key features

Comparison Single pass dryer Tirple pass dryer
Heating efficiency 50%-60% 75%-85%
Energy consumption High (1000-1200kcal/kg water) Low (700-900kcal/kg water)
Capacity Suitable for small and middel (≤10t/h) Suitable for Big capacity (10-30t/h)
Water content control
±2% ±1%
Maintainence
Low Medium to High
Application Common and small particle board plant High quality particle board, OSB and continuous press


- The Comparison of Structure

Items Single pass dryer Triple pass dryer
Drum quantity Single cylindrical roller Three concentric columns nested
Length Longer (same capacity, longer 1.5 times) Shorter 
Diameter smaller Bigger
Support shelf Two sets of support wheels (front and rear support) More than three sets support wheels 
Access door
Few (1-2 pcs on the side) More (every layers have )


- The Comparison of Inlet and Outlet


Single pass dryer Triple pass dryer
Inlet Unilateral opening (hot air and material enter at the same end) Multilayer inlet (hot air into each layer channel)
Outlet Simple hopper type
Multistage separation structure (with material guide plate)


So, as your budget and production capacity, you can choose the suitable dryer type

Our factory manufacture and offer Wood based panel machinery like OSB equipment, MDF production line, Particle board making machines, and another our department make Plywood machine and veneer machine.

Therefore if you need related dryer or other machines, welcome contact us for more information








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