Convection dryers vary greatly in size, features and delivery method and design of the air and heat distribution. To meet your process requirements efficiently, it is important to select the right type of dryer for your products and processes. It is equally important, however, to properly size and design the dryer.

Producers of nonwoven battings and foams are faced with unique drying challenges due to the insulative characteristics of these products. 

Tube furnaces can be used for a range of thermal processes, including annealing, coating and drying. They offer much greater thermal uniformity when compared to cylindrical heaters. One manufacturer offers two types: split tube and solid tube.

The custom drying/curing oven is designed to cure and heat magnetic windings to ensure the transformers meet noise-level objectives. To make low noise transformers, the windings must be kept tight.

Suited for applications that require clean, dry parts such as brazing, coating, soldering and plating, thermal deoilers use indirectly heated dry air to clean parts contaminated with oils or lubricants.

Industrial ovens cover the gamut of configurations, heating methods and manufacturing processes. With so many suppliers offering a range of designs, how do you know where to start? Use our online Equipment Overview to identify prospective suppliers for your next oven buying project.

Thermal Product Solutions shipped seven glassware drying ovens to a university based in the Midwest. The Gruenberg ovens have a maximum temperature rating of 650°F and utilize a vertical-up airflow, which maximizes heating rates and temperature uniformity of the product load.

An electrically heated oven will be used for drying small parts in a tray at a manufacturing facility. The 250°F (121°C) oven, designed and built by Grieve, has 3 kW installed in Incoloy-sheathed tubular heating elements. A 300-CFM, 1/3-hp recirculating blower provides vertical airflow upward through tray to the workload.

An industrial roofing manufacturer will use a large conveyor oven rated for a maximum operating temperature of 350°F (177°C) to dry the water off a coated scrim at 200°F (93°C). The finished product is used for various roofing applications.

A Class B oven with a maximum temperature rating of 250°F (121°C) will process up to 5 gal of water per batch from 1,500 lb of metal powder. Thermal Product Solutions (TPS) shipped the Gruenberg cabinet oven to a company involved in research and development.