Drying & Cooling

Fluid bed processing has several applications, the most common in process industries being drying and cooling, agglomeration, and air classification. Carrier offers a variety of vibrating fluid bed dryer and cooler systems that have proven reliable in applications around the world, and its designs can be customized to meet your needs. Other industrial drying and cooling equipment include conventional (static) fluid beds, media slurry dryers, flash and tornesh dryers.

Industrial Drying & Cooling Equipment Types

Customized To Your Application

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Carrier’s Dryers & Coolers

Carrier’s drying and cooling technologies are engineered to deliver consistent, high-performance results across a wide range of materials and operating conditions utilizing the least amount of energy. Whether handling bulk solids, aggregates, or specialty materials, our solutions provide reliable, scalable performance, helping manufacturers increase productivity, extend equipment life, and maintain strict quality standards.

Secadores y enfriadores de lecho fluido vibratorio

Dry and cool a wide range of material types at a variety of feed rates. Ideal for materials with wide particle size distribution.

Secadores vibratorios de lecho fluido
Enfriadores de lecho fluidizado vibrante

Conventional / Static Fluid Bed Dryers & Coolers

Provide efficient processing including drying, cooling, classifying and sterilizing with Carrier conventional fluid bed dryers and coolers.

Secadores convencionales de lecho fluido
Enfriadores convencionales de lecho fluido

Secadores de lodos de medios

Cost-effective in the production of super fine powders from liquid phase reaction or wet grinding operations. High viscosity materials can be pumped directly into a slurry dryer without mixing or atomization.

Secadores Flash

Economical solution to dry powders and granular materials. Flash dryers can use higher gas temperatures than other dryers due to a very short material retention time, are capable of processing high capacities in a relatively small amount of space, and are often used as a pre-dryer to expand production capacity on existing lines.

Secadores Tornesh

Combine many of the benefits of fluid bed and flash drying. Process wet solids ranging in size from 1 micron up to one-half inch diameter. Materials to be dried fall to the bottom plenum and begin to swirl in a cyclonic pattern. As moisture is removed from the product, it becomes lighter and eventually is entrained in the upward hot gas stream.

VibroQ & VibroCool

Heat and Cool exchangers provide efficient indirect thermal processing for bulk solids while protecting product quality. Their vibratory design ensures uniform material movement across heat-transfer surfaces for consistent temperatures, high efficiency, and minimal maintenance.

Enfriadores de arena

Designed for foundry and processing operations, sand coolers efficiently reduce hot return sand to temperature and moisture levels ideal for reuse and mulling. Their vibrating fluid-bed design evenly distributes air through the sand bed to maximize thermal efficiency while preventing pluggage and hot spots.

Aggregate / Sand
Dryers & Coolers

Sand and aggregate dryers and coolers are engineered for demanding bulk material operations. These systems provide precise temperature control, uniform material flow, and rugged construction to handle abrasive materials and high throughputs.

The Basic Theory of Fluid Bed Dryers, Slurry Dryers, Flash Dryers & Tornesh Dryers

Para entender los sistemas de secado de lecho fluido, es importante familiarizarse con su funcionamiento. El proceso de lecho fluido hace pasar un gas directamente a través de un lecho de material sólido mediante una placa perforada, toberas, rejilla cerámica u otro medio fluidizante, levantando y mezclando los sólidos. A medida que aumenta la velocidad del aire, también lo hace la caída de presión a través del lecho hasta que, a un determinado caudal, el arrastre por fricción de las partículas iguala el peso efectivo del lecho de material. A esta velocidad de fluidización, el lecho de material adquiere propiedades similares a las del fluido y se expande más allá del tamaño del lecho fluido. Cuando la velocidad del aire en la sección transversal libre aumenta aún más, el lecho se expande hasta que las partículas son arrastradas por el aire. Al fluidizar el lecho, cada partícula queda envuelta en el gas de proceso, creando un dispositivo de transferencia de calor extremadamente eficaz.

Improve thermal efficiency while reducing overall fuel consumption
Achieve precise moisture control for consistent product quality
Handle a wide range of bulk solids, slurries, and fine materials
Increase throughput with continuous, high-capacity processing
Minimize maintenance requirements with rugged, reliable designs
Reduce operational costs through optimized airflow and heat transfer
Customize dryer configurations to meet specific material and process requirements