A method for solids drying using drying equipment, the method comprising:
- A. dryer loading
- A.1) products to dry are automatically or manually fed to a hopper (413-A) and fall due to gravity directly on a vertical transporter (413);
- A.2) a sluice (409) and a flow valve (418) of the a product output piping (417) are closed and a flow valve (416) of the product to dry input piping (414) is opened, the vertical transporter (413) is triggered so as the product is forwarded to inside the drying equipment until it reaches the established level indicated by a level indicator sensor (419), provided that a discharge hopper (408) and a drying chamber (405) are filled;
- and
- A.3) upon the conclusion of a supply step, the vertical transporter (413) is kept on and supply is interrupted at the hopper (413-A) and the sluice (409) is opened;
- B. drying
- B.1) drying air supply or drying air conditioning equipment (421) supplying air, directly to drying equipment to the desired drying air temperature and moisture are triggered;
- B.2) product located in the drying chamber(s) are dried intermittently, however, with a continuous motion of the product and of air during the batch processing, and may also operate with drying in continuous regime without intermittence;
- for this step, dry air is led through a dry air pipe (422) to the drying equipment, goes in through a flange (410-B), goes through a drying air feeding pipe (410), goes through a scaled segment (403-B) of a drying air distribution pipe (403) and goes in through a drying air input nozzle (406-A) in a lower air diffusion module (406) and through a drying air input nozzle(s) (404-A) in an upper air diffusion module(s) (404) supplying drying air to each cell and goes initially through the material to dry through pierced plates on the tilted part of drying cells (404-B) and (406-B) and then, goes axially through the later of material to dry contained in a drying chamber (405) arriving as humid air at the plenums formed by a chamfer (406-E-1) and through a chamfer(s) (404-E-1) at the height of the lower air diffusion module (406) and of the upper air diffusion module(s) (404) and in a plenum (401) connected to air output extensions (411-A), which connect to an output air tube (411);
- B.3) the product is motioned in an uninterrupted manner or not, through the sluice (409) either through cyclic or open/close action, and are taken periodically at the moisture collection point or are followed-up through a moisture determiner (412);
- and
- B.4) after satisfactory conclusion of the drying step through batches or continuously, reaching the desired moisture, the drying air supply or drying air conditioning equipment (421) is turned off;
- and
- C. discharging
- products with the desired moisture are removed, first opening the sluice (409) and the flow valve (418) of the dry product output piping (417), and closing the flow valve (416) of the product to the dry input piping (414), so as the vertical transporter (413) discharges all product with the desired moisture out of the equipment through the dry product output piping (417).