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David Phillips was manager, marketing and communications, at Heyl & Patterson Inc., Pittsburgh, a manufacturer of thermal processing systems, including rotary calciners and dryers. For more information from Heyl & Patterson Inc., call (412) 788-9810 or visit www.heylpatterson.com.
Frac sand plays the essential role of preventing fractures in oil and gas wells from closing prematurely, Rotary and fluid bed dryers are used to thermally treat the frac sand to remove impurities before it is injection in the fissures.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a mining technique that greatly enhances oil- and gas-well productivity and is being aggressively deployed all over the world and particularly in North America.
Asking questions about the material to be dried, requirements for drying, production and final product quality, and your physical plant will help you define what you do — and don’t — need in a process dryer.
Because an industrial dryer is a major capital investment for any organization, it pays to select and test the unit carefully. Dryer life can be measured in decades, so the selection of inefficient equipment can have a long-term impact on the economic health of the facility that houses it.
Used to heat materials that are fine and dusty, sensitive to oxidation, combustible, explosive, potentially contaminating or thermally sensitive, rotary calciners isolate the materials to be processed in a high-temperature chamber.