Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Apparatus – With means to treat gas or vapor
Patent
1993-01-07
1993-11-16
Bennet, Henry A.
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Apparatus
With means to treat gas or vapor
34 18, 34 68, 34 41, 34156, F26B 334
Patent
active
052611663
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for the non-contact drying of a web of material with a combination of infrared radiation and heated air. The apparatus includes a dryer enclosure in which is mounted a plurality of air bars in air-receiving communication with upper and lower headers both above and below the web for the contactless convection drying of the web. Mounted between the air bars are infrared gas fired burners. In order to accommodate the infrared burners between the air bars, spacers are fitted on the header system supplying air to the air bars. The drying surface of the web is thus alternately heated by infrared radiation and then scrubbed by high velocity air to remove the moist boundary layer. Since the burners are completely enclosed, all heat energy is captured in the exhaust system of the dryer assembly and a portion can be used to supply hot convention air back to the dryer. The remaining air is hot enough to be used in other convection dryers in series with the instant combination dryer, or have its heat recovered through the use of heat exchanger.
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Fontaine Edwin S.
Seeley William R.
Baker William L.
Bennet Henry A.
Gromada Denise
Lemack Kevin S.
W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn.
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