LCI's drying solutions offer all the advantages you expect from indirect contact drying coupled with LCI's expertise at solving the most difficult and demanding processing applications. LCI offers a range of drying technologies from thin-film dryers to large volume segmental disc dryers.
LCI drying systems can be used in a wide variety of process duties including drying, stripping, cooling, reacting, devolatilizing, de-monomerizing, and melting.
Benefits / features:
- Batch or continuous
- Range of residence times
- Energy efficient
- Reduced air pollution and explosion hazards
Products / processes:
- Powders
- Solutions / slurries
- Pastes
- Sticky, pasty, fouling, crystallizing materials
- Melting
LCI's Thin-film Dryers, the Vertical Dryer, Horizontal Dryer, and the Combi Dryer™ (Vertical and Horizontal designs together), are being used in a multitude of installations worldwide. They can be heated by steam or hot oil, and can be operated semi-batch-wise or continuously at atmospheric pressure or under vacuum.
LCI Dryers require no sweep gas. These dryers are particularly suited for heat-sensitive products which must be carefully dried in a short time under vacuum.
The Reactotherm® and the Rovactor® can be operated continuously or batch-wise with residence times ranging from a few minutes to several hours. Units consist of a horizontal shell and a rotor with segmented discs. The Reactotherm adds mixing bars and stationary mixing hooks to provide intensive mixing and kneading. Heat is transferred to the product from the body jackets and the segmented rotor using steam or another thermal fluid.