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The document discusses tray drying as a common industrial drying process. Tray dryers involve suspending trays of material to be dried in an air stream within an insulated cabinet. Heat is transferred to the material via the heated air current, heated trays, or radiative heating to evaporate water from the material over 12-48 hours. The specific SOLTEQ tray drier model discussed uses an electrically heated air duct to control air temperature and velocity across suspended trays, with online monitoring of material weight loss and air properties.

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The document discusses tray drying as a common industrial drying process. Tray dryers involve suspending trays of material to be dried in an air stream within an insulated cabinet. Heat is transferred to the material via the heated air current, heated trays, or radiative heating to evaporate water from the material over 12-48 hours. The specific SOLTEQ tray drier model discussed uses an electrically heated air duct to control air temperature and velocity across suspended trays, with online monitoring of material weight loss and air properties.

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1.

0 Objectives

1. To produce drying and drying rate curves for a wet solid being dried with air of fixed
temperature and humidity.

1.0 Introduction

Drying is a mass transfer process that involves removal of relatively small amounts of water
or moisture contents from a material or a process stream. In industries, drying process is often
used as the final step operation before packaging and selling products. Generally, drying the
solid refers to the removal by thermal vaporization of relatively small quantity of water or other
liquid from the solid material to reduce the content of residual liquid to an acceptable low
value. There is also direct heating and indirect heating. There are many methods of drying
such as contact drying, dielectric drying, application of hot air, freezing drying and supercritical
drying. This method of drying involves with different type of drying equipment such as Tray
dryers, Vacuum-shelf indirect dryers, Continuous tunnel dryers, Rotary dryers, Drum dryers
and Spray dryers.

The common type of dryers uses in many industrial applications involves tray dryers as their
drying operation. The dryers are made of tray held in a cabinet, which is connected to a source
of heated air. The operation mechanism of tray drying is the heat is channeled by an air current
sweeping across the trays, by conduction from heated trays or heated shelves on which the
trays lie, or by radiation from heated surfaces. The tray must be tight-fitting in the cabinet to
air form bypassing the material that needed to be dried. The drying time by using tray dryers
usually need a longer time. In industries, tray dryer operates about 12 to 48 hours for solids
to be dried. This is because tray dryers required low capital and maintenance cost but it have
poor control and chances to produces more variable product quality.

The equipment of SOLTEQ Tray Drier (Model: BP 772) comprise of an air duct mounted on a
floor standing frame to give a comfortable working height for the operator. Air is drawn into
the duct through a Mesh Guard by a motor driven axial flow Fan Impeller whose speed can
be controlled to produce a range of air velocities up to 2.0 m/s in the duct. The air passes over
an electrically heated element controlled by a power regulator to provide a variation in air
temperature up to a maximum of 80°C at low air velocities. The air passes into the central
section of the duct where trays of material to be dried are suspended in the air stream. The
trays are carried on a support frame, which is attached to a digital balance, mounted above
the duct and on which the total weight is continuously indicated. The trays are inserted or
removed from the duct through a latched side door with a glass panel for viewing purpose.
After passing over Drying Trays, the air is discharged at atmosphere through an outlet duct
section where a Vane Anemometer can be position. Wet and Dry Bulb temperatures of the air
are measured using a DC powered aspirated Psychrometer. Access points for the
Psychrometer are provided both upstream and downstream of the Drying Trays and are
covered by flaps when not in use. A Process Flow Diagram for Tray Drying Process Unit is as
shown below.

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