Flash Dryer

The GEA Barr-Rosin Flash Dryer is a pneumatic system primarily used to dry products requiring the removal of free moisture. Drying takes place in a matter of seconds. Wet material is dispersed into a stream of heated air (or gas) which conveys it through a drying duct.

Flash Dryer

Using the heat from the airstream, the material dries as it is conveyed. Product is separated using cyclones, and/or bag filters. Typically, cyclones are followed by scrubbers or bag filters for final cleaning of the exhaust gases to meet current emission requirements.

Elevated drying temperatures can be used with many products since the flashing off of surface moisture instantly cools the drying gas without appreciably increasing the product temperature.

For even greater thermal efficiency and where inertisation is required, recycling of exhaust gases can be used. This can be implemented on all our airstream drying systems and retrofitted on customer's existing drying operations.

Many of the largest dryers in the world are flash dryers - some exceeding 20 tons of water evaporation per hour in a single system. Inlet air temperature ranges from 200- 1400°F (100oC -650oC) while airflows can exceed 120,000 cfm (200,000 m3/hr).

Flash dryers have been used to dry products in many industries including food, chemical, mineral and polymer. A broad range of feed materials including powders, cakes, granules, flakes, pastes, gels, and slurries can be processed. For slurries, pastes, or sticky materials, backmixing of the wet feed with a portion of dry product to produce a suitable conditioned material is required.

This technology can also be used for cooling applications.

Open Circuit Flash Dryer

The GEA Barr-Rosin Research and Development Center is equipped with a pilot scale flash dryer for conducting trials.

For a copy of our online brochure, please click on the appropriate link:

• Flash Dryer Section
• Airstream Drying Brochure

For additional information about flash dryers and the technology of flash drying please access the pages titled Flash Dryers & Swirl Fluidizers and Flash Dryers - A Family of Drying Systems. GEA Process Engineering Inc. and GEA Barr-Rosin are sister companies in the Process Engineering segment of the GEA Group.

For information about pharmaceutical, chemical, food, and dairy spray drying systems access this URL http://www.niroinc.com/spray_drying.asp.