Properly sizing a paddle thermal processor is one of many crucial steps necessary to meet proper production and quality requirements of a given process. A paddle thermal processor is an indirectly heated or cooled, mechanically agitated, highly efficient device for adding or removing energy from a process mass.

Those that have worked with industrial thermal technologies likely remember when the U.S. Department of Energy’s Industrial Technology Program was actively marketing its efforts to reduce industry’s energy consumption — and thereby reduce overall demand for energy. 

Infrared has been in use in process heating for more than 30 years, but only recently has it become a commonplace consideration for most oven designs. Convection (hot air) heating typically has been the ubiquitous solution, and it does a good job in many situations.

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A smarter world has emerged around us. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) revolution is changing the way companies are doing business much as the Internet of Things is changing everyday life.

AeroDry is engineered to serve an array of processing applications for synthetic rubber, super absorbent polymers and chemicals. Designed with the lowest energy footprint to date, the AeroDry is engineered for production rates up to 100 tons per hour and the temperature extremes required for many thermal processing applications. 

A single unit designed for compact size includes a ultra-high temperature/high temperature, short-time (UHT/HTST) processor, direct-steam injection and homogenization for either upstream or downstream.