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US 6,328,099 B1Granted
Moving bed dryer
AssigneeMississippi Chemical Corporation
InventorsGeorge Allen Hilt, Donald Ray Thomas
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Abstract
Free-flowing solid particles are dried in a moving bed dryer by passing the particles adjacent to a heat exchanger plate containing a heated fluid while passing a dehumidified gas into the solid particles from a gas flow manifold in the heat exchanger plate.
Claims23
A moving bed dryer comprising
- a source of dehumidified gas, and
- at least one heat exchanger plate, wherein
- the at least one heat exchanger plate includes
- an interior fluid flow channel connecting a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, and
- a gas flow manifold on an end of the at least one heat exchanger plate;
- an inlet of the gas flow manifold is connected to the source of dehumidified gas;
- an outlet of the gas flow manifold comprises at least one aperture;
- the at least one heat exchanger plate comprises two largest surfaces;
- the two largest surfaces are on opposite sides of a plane;
- the at least one aperture has an axis;
- and
- the axis is not parallel to the plane.
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The moving bed dryer according to claim l, wherein the end of the at least one heat exchanger plate is a bottom end of the at least one heat exchanger plate.
A moving bed dryer comprising
- a source of dehumidified gas, and
- at least one heat exchanger plate, wherein
- the at least one heat exchanger plate includes
- an interior fluid flow channel connecting a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, and
- a gas flow manifold on an end of the at least one heat exchanger plate;
- an inlet of the gas flow manifold is connected to the source of dehumidified gas;
- an outlet of the gas flow manifold comprises at least one aperture;
- the at least one heat exchanger plate comprises two largest surfaces;
- the at least one aperture has an axis;
- and
- the axis is perpendicular to at least a portion of the two largest surfaces.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.