What type of wood chip dryer should I use?

Wood chip dryer is an important drying equipment for drying wood chips, bringing wood chips with moisture content from 45% to 15% humidity. The woodchip dryer   dries the wood chips for the purpose of burning the kiln or grinding the wood chips to make pellets.

How are wood chips produced?

Wood chips are processed from different types of wood such as acacia acacia, eucalyptus, rubber wood, junk wood, etc. Wood or wood in the form of bars is put into a disc-shaped wood chipping system to create chips. After being chopped, the wood chips will be screened <40mm in size so as not to cause blockage in the transportation equipment and the woodchip dryer .

What types of wood chip dryers are there?

Wood chip dryer in batches

Wood chips are put into drying bins with a capacity of 2 to 20 tons/drying batch. The advantage of batch woodchip dryer is low investment cost and easy operation.

This batch dryer is called slat dryer, the series of horizontal hopper dryer is suitable for all kinds of granular, paved materials.

Horizontal dryer has 2 types:

• 1 way horizontal beam dryer
• Reversible horizontal beam dryer

Continuous wood chip drying machine

Continuous wood chip dryers usually use continuous rotating drum drying equipment with a capacity of 2 to 10 tons/h. The advantages of the continuous drying system are large capacity, small installation area and combination of automation with other equipment in the production line.

Rotary barrel-type woodchip dryer has 3 main types:

• Rotary drum dryer 1 pass
• Rotary drum dryer 2 pass
• 3-pass rotary drum dryer

Advantages of continuous rotary drum dryer for drying wood chips and sawdust:

• The rotary drum drying system has a smooth transmission, so it works stably and is easy to maintain.
• The continuously rotating drum dryer is designed to optimize drying capacity and efficiently use the heat source.
• The quality of wood chips after drying ensures the criteria of dry wood chips for grinding as fuel or crushing pellets.
• High durability, low energy consumption.
• Intelligent control, fully automatic operation by PLC.
• Customize the exact temperature and parameters for the stored drying system.
• Improve production line efficiency for the whole production system.
• Saving operating labor in the production line.

Contact for advice on industrial drying equipment

SUNSAY dryer is a professional unit in drying. For any need for advice and supply of wood chip dryers , please contact the hotline (Zalo): 094.110.8888 or refer to the website for more information: www,maysay.vn

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