EP0013081A2 - Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Trocknen von Produkten mittels eines geschlossenen Gasumlaufs und einer trocknenden Flüssigkeit und so hergestellte Produkte - Google Patents

Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Trocknen von Produkten mittels eines geschlossenen Gasumlaufs und einer trocknenden Flüssigkeit und so hergestellte Produkte Download PDF

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EP0013081A2
EP0013081A2 EP79302699A EP79302699A EP0013081A2 EP 0013081 A2 EP0013081 A2 EP 0013081A2 EP 79302699 A EP79302699 A EP 79302699A EP 79302699 A EP79302699 A EP 79302699A EP 0013081 A2 EP0013081 A2 EP 0013081A2
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Lászlo Szücs
András Horváth
Emöd Sigmond
György Waermer
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F26—DRYING
    • F26B—DRYING SOLID MATERIALS OR OBJECTS BY REMOVING LIQUID THEREFROM
    • F26B21/00—Arrangements or duct systems, e.g. in combination with pallet boxes, for supplying and controlling air or gases for drying solid materials or objects
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    • F26B21/08—Humidity
    • F26B21/083—Humidity by using sorbent or hygroscopic materials, e.g. chemical substances, molecular sieves
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24F—AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
    • F24F3/00—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems
    • F24F3/12—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling
    • F24F3/14—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling by humidification; by dehumidification
    • F24F3/1411—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling by humidification; by dehumidification by absorbing or adsorbing water, e.g. using an hygroscopic desiccant
    • F24F3/1417—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling by humidification; by dehumidification by absorbing or adsorbing water, e.g. using an hygroscopic desiccant with liquid hygroscopic desiccants
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F26—DRYING
    • F26B—DRYING SOLID MATERIALS OR OBJECTS BY REMOVING LIQUID THEREFROM
    • F26B21/00—Arrangements or duct systems, e.g. in combination with pallet boxes, for supplying and controlling air or gases for drying solid materials or objects
    • F26B21/02—Circulating air or gases in closed cycles, e.g. wholly within the drying enclosure
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24F—AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
    • F24F3/00—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems
    • F24F3/12—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling
    • F24F3/14—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling by humidification; by dehumidification
    • F24F2003/144—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling by humidification; by dehumidification by dehumidification only

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  • This invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for drying products with a closed gas stream and with a desiccant (sorption) liquid reducing the moisture content of the gas stream; and to products prepared by said method or apparatus.
  • a well-known method of drying products consists in that the material to be dried is brought into direct contact with some gas, in most cases with air unsaturated with moisture, this way the material gets drier, the gas more and more saturated with moisture.
  • Drying apparatuses in common use at present especially the ones serving for drying a relatively big amount of products - usually dry with heated air of small relative humidity, which is released into the atmosphere after the drying had taken place.
  • This open gas stream drying is accompanied by a significant loss of thermal energy, and it is unsatisfactory also because in some cases the products to be dried are heat-sensitive. It can also be disadvantageous because of producing air-pollution.
  • aqueous solutions of lithium chloride or ethylene glyool to remove the moisture from a gas.
  • a continuous regeneration of the drying gas in this manner makes a closed gas stream also applicable.
  • the suggested solutions utilising a desiccant liquid cause the liquid to contact with the gas stream in sprayed or pulverized form, and the liquid particles carried away by gas stream are held back by a drip separator.
  • the invention is based on the following basic ideas
  • the present invention comprises a method of drying products with a closed gas stream and a desiccant liquid wherein the following steps are performed: introducing the product to be dried into a drying compartment; continuously circulating a drying gas stream so as to cause it to pass the product to be dried; contacting the drying gas stream with a desiccant liquid to remove moisture from the gas; and regenerating the desiccant liquid by circulating at least a part of it through regenerating means which remove moisture therefrom.
  • the essence of this method consists in producing at least one layer of the desiccant liquid in the vicinity of the product when in the drying compartment, and contacting the drying gas stream with said at least one desiccant liquid layer.
  • the application of a liquid layer according to the invention is advantageous in several respects. Firstly, it renders unnecessary the drip separator applied in the known systems, while effectively preventing pollution of the gas stream by the liquid-drops, and thus it diminishes the loss of the desiccant liquid also. Secondly, the coefficient of the mass transfer between the liquid and the gas is more favourable here than with liquid particles; this allows compact structure accompanied by a smaller pressure drop of the gas stream. Thirdly, it does not demand a contacting space separated from the drying compartment; the liquid layer can be established quite close to the product to be dried. Another advantage is that bringing about a liquid layer as less delicate an operation than spraying known from the previous solutions, because the danger of a block up is much less, and so is the need for maintenance. This latter factor is of particular significance . as the gas stream often transports dust and other pollution beside moisture into the desiccant liquid, which block up the holes in the spray nozzles.
  • An advantageous implementation of the method according to the invention is to produce a substantially horizontal desiccant liquid layer, and bubbling the gas stream through said horizontal liquid layer. By this it is possible to dry bulk goods, for instance transported on a belt conveyor which is conducted under or above the horizontal liquid layer.
  • At least one desiccant liquid layer is produced by causing the desiccant liquid to flow on liquid film conducting elements, and said contacting is performed by causing said drying gas stream to pass between said liquid film conducting elements.
  • the liquid film conducting elements can be applied to form a curtain--like arrangement which may for example bound the drying compartment.
  • Another aspect of the invention consists in a method of drying product wherein the following steps are performed: introducing the product to be dried into a drying compartment; continuously circulating a drying gas stream so as to cause it to pass tne product to be dried; contacting the drying gas stream with a desiacant liquid to ramove moisture from the gas; and regenerating the desiccant liquid by circulating at least a part of it through regenerating means which remove moisture therefrom.
  • the essence of this method consists in bringing about a heat exchange between the desiccant liquid and the product to be dried so that the heat is transmitted by the drying gas stream between the desiccant liquid and the product to be dried.
  • the desiocant liquid is a desiccant solution; said regenerating is performed by evaporating the desiccant solution, and the steam evaporated from the desiccant solution is at least partly condensed by the desiccant solution to be regenerated.
  • This permits highly economic regeneration during which the energy requirement of regeneration can be reduced to a great extent by applying a multi-effect boiling or a multi-stage flash evaporation.
  • the evaporation heat of the evaporated steam is used for heating the air which is to predry the product it is an advantage that the steam condensation with a liquid requires a smaller and cheaper device than that working with air,
  • Regeneration can be executed by heating the desiccant solution to be regenerated without causing it to boil, with the steam evaporated from the solution.
  • the desiccant solution is to be cooled before regeneration as a function of the cooling down of the desiccant solution during the drying process so that the desiccant solution to be regenerated is of a predetermined temperature.
  • the cooling suggested here is vital for the control of the cycle of the desiccant solution, and is meant to complement the cooling down which occurs in the desiccant solution on contact with the drying gas stream.
  • the degree of cooling must be altered for instance according to the season.
  • the ccoling is preferably done during regeneration.
  • the continuous circulation of the drying gas stream is performed by conducting the drying gas stream in a path section between the product to be dried and the desiccant liquid so that in said path section the ratio of the maximum and minimum velocity of the drying gas stream is smaller than five to one and the alteration of the direction of the drying gas stream is less than 30 degrees.
  • This measure results in a relatively small demand for ventilation power; this is an important point in the economy of the whole drying procedure.
  • the ventilation power can be further diminished if the drying gas stream is conducted between the product to be dried and the desiccant liquid substantially without any alteration of velocity and direction.
  • the method according to the invention is applicable not only for eliminating the moisture of water but also for drying materials which contain a different kind of moisture by using an appropriate desiccant liquid. It is possible, for instance, to apply the present method for drying materials containing alcoholic moisture using closed air stream and petrol as desiccant liquid.
  • the drying gas stream consists of at least two parallel partial gas streams; the product to be dried is moved across said partial gas streams; and each of said partial. gas streams is contacted with a desiccant liquid of specific concentration and temperature.
  • each of said partial gas streams is contacted with a more concentrated desiccant liquid than the desiccant liquid contacting the previous partial gas stream with respect to the direction of movement of the product to be dried. This results in a counter-current between the product to be dried and the desiccant liquid.
  • the method according to the invention can be implemented also by producing at least two separated groups of desiccant liquid films of different concentration; placing said groups of desiccant liquid films side by side in the way of said partial gas streams so that each of said gas streams is contacted with its own at least one group of desiccant liquid films.
  • each of said groups of desiccant liquid films is provided with own liquid circulation; the liquid circulation of the last group with respect to the direction of movement of the product to be dried is fed with the regenerated desiccant liquid coming from said regenerating means; the circulation of each preceding group is fed with the overflow of the circulation of the subsequent group; and the overflow of the circulation of the first group is conducted into said regenerating means. In this way counter-current is attained between the desiccant liquid and the product to be dried.
  • a further aspect of the invention consists in apparatus for drying products with a closed gas stream and desiccant liquid
  • the apparatus comprises at least one drying compartment for the product to be dried; at least one contacting device for contacting a drying gas stream with a desiccant liquid to remove moisture from the gas; gas conducting means for conducting the drying gas stream in a substantially closed path through said drying compartment and said contacting device; gas circulating means to cause the drying gas stream to circulate along said closed path; regenerating means for removing moisture from the desiocant liquid; and liquid circulating means for circulating at least a part of the desiccant liquid through said regenerating means and said contacting device.
  • said contacting device includes means for producing at least one layer of the desiccant liquid to be contacted with the drying gas stream; said at least one desiccant liquid layer being located in the vicinity of the product disposed in said drying compartment.
  • the contacting device comprises a vessel for producing a substantially horizontal desiccant liquid layer, said vessel having on its wall bubbling caps for bubbling the drying gas stream through said liquid layer, said vessel being connected to said liquid circulating means so as to cause the desiccant liquid to flow along said vessel, and said drying compartment is located above or below said vessel.
  • the drying compartment comprises a device for transporting the product to be dried through said drying compartment, said transporting device having openings for letting through the drying gas stream but not letting the product to be dried drop.
  • the transporting device is an endless belt conveyor, and said (blowers) gas circulating means are ventilators/placed side by side along said belt convayor.
  • the contacting device comprises liquid film conducting elements being placed so that the drying gas stream is passing between said liquid film conducting elements
  • the contacting device further comprises a receptacle for receiving and holding the incoming desiccant liquid, at least one pile lock to guide in film form the liquid out of said receptacle, liquid distributing means having at least one distributing surface connected to said at least one pile lock and facing downwards, and liquid outlet means, wherein said film conducting elements are connected between said liquid distributing surface and said liquid outlet means so that they conduct liquid films from said surface into said outlet means.
  • This embodiment is not very sensitive to the pollution which might get into the desiccant liquid from the drying gas stream.
  • liquid film conducting elements - preferably strips or fibres - into at least one substantially vertical plane.
  • the strips or fibres can be made of a metal resistant to the desiccant liquid or of a plastic material which tolerates the highest possible temperature of the desiccant liquid.
  • One possible embodiment of the drying apparatus according to the invention is applicable for products as wood.
  • This embodiment comprises a basement, a shell-roof, and a false roof provided with openings for letting through the drying gas stream and located between said basement and said shell-roof, wherein said drying compartment is located between said basement and said false roof, said gas circulating means are ventilators (blowers) placed between said false roof and said shell-roof, and said contacting device is placed at said drying compartment so that said at least one vertical plane formed by said liquid film conducting elements is substantially perpendicular to the drying gas stream and extends between said basement and said false roof.
  • liquid film gas contacting device is placed at a boundary surface or a cross-section of the drying compartment, said surface or cross-section being substantially perpendicular to the direction of the gas stream.
  • a very advantageous embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention is wherein the contacting device consists of at least two liquid film modules placed side by side, each liquid film module has its own liquid film conducting elements and own liquid circulating device providing a liquid circulation to form the liquid films on said own conducting elements, and said liquid film modules are provided with a common liquid channel inter-connecting said liquid circulating devices, said common liquid changed being connected to said liquid circulating means.
  • the apparatus has one single regenerating means belonging to it, still each liquid film module gets a desiccant liquid whose activity is different from that of the others.
  • the ratio of any two flow sections of said gas conducting means between said drying compartment and said contacting device is between 0.2 and 5; and said contacting device is located at said drying compartment so that the drying gas stream flows between the product to be dried and said contacting device with a directional change of less than 30 degrees. It is very advantageous if said flow cross section ratio is between 0.5 and 2, and said directional change is substantially zero degree, and the distance between said drying compartment and said contacting device is less than the hydraulic diameter of said gas-conducting means between them.
  • the desiccant solution regenerating means contain a multi-effect evaporator or a multi-stage flash evaporator. It is the latter which is more expedient with regard to its simple operation. This embodiment guarantees very economical regeneration also from the point of view of energy consumption.
  • a further aspect of this invention consists in, as an article of manufacture, the product prepared according to the present method.
  • a casing 42 of a drying apparatus is shown schematically.
  • a,gas stream e.g. an air stream which dries product 50 e.g. bulk goods as shown in the figure, circulates in a closed circle in the direction of arrow 64. Circulation is forced by a fan or ventilator 66 which is driven by an electric motor 46 placed above a false roof 54 shown schematically, without its holding means in the figure.
  • the false roof 54 has openings 47 in it which the air stream can get through.
  • the product 50 is situated in a drying compartment 40 under the false roof 54. After flowing through the product 50the now wet air stream gets into a contacting device 43 which causes the air stream to contact with liquid films 41 of a desiccant liquid.
  • the desiccant liquid is forced by a pump 141 into a regenerator 150.
  • the active and hot desiccant liquid comes into the contacting device 43 from a pipeline 44 above, it gets into a pot-shape receptacle 55, from there over a pile lock 56 to a liquid distributing surface 57 facing downwards. From the liquid distributing surface 57 it gets onto downward directed liquid film conducting elements 58, e.g. fibres, said elements conduct it to a liquid outlet channel 62, from there it departs through a pipeline 45.
  • liquid film conducting elements 58 e.g. fibres
  • the desiccant liquid diluted and cooled by the contact with the air stream gets into the regenerator 150 through the pipeline 45.
  • the regenerator 150 displayed in the drawing as an example contains a multi-stage flash evaporator 151, the liquid circulating pump 141, a pump 142 for removing the distillate of the multi-stage flash evaporator 151 through a pipe end 149, and a heat-exchanger 143 which is fed with cooling water through pipe ends 144. Cooling in the beat-exchanger 143 is essential for the appropriate operation of the multi-stage flash evaporator 151.
  • the active liquid leaving regenerator 150 warms up while going through condenser 145, then gets back to the contacting device 43.
  • the condenser 145 gets the heating steam through a pipe end 146, and the condensate is carried away by a pump 147 through a pipe end 148.
  • Elements of the regenerator 150 and the heating after the regeneration are well-known in themselves, so their detailed description is unnecessary.
  • Fig. 1 is particularly advantageous when drying products with high heat tolerance e.g. bricks, as in this arrangement the temperature of the desiccant liquid which has returned from the contacting device 43 and has been "cooled" there is still enough for eliminating the moisture during the flashing process.
  • the application of the multi-stage flash evaporator 151 shown in Fig. 1 is particularly advantageous in thu apparatus according to the invention because it is from the points of view of control, operation and reliability more favourable then other multi-effect evaporators of the same energetic efficiency.
  • the evaporation does not take place along heat transfer surfaces, so it is less sensitive to encrustation and corrosion, and its the construction does not become complicated even if the energetic efficiency is removed.
  • an evaporator of different arrangement or construction per so known can equally be applied for the regeneration.
  • the drying compartment can be constructed and the product 50 to be dried can be placed in many ways (suspended, fluid--bedded, geyser, chamber, tunnel or anything else).
  • the product can be moved during the drying process and the drying gas can equally meat the products in counter- cross- or direct-current.
  • Fig. 2, 3 and 4 show an embodiment of the drying apparatus according to the invention which operates with a substantially horizontally moving liquid layer 1 and with a horizontally moving product 2 above the passes liquid layer.
  • the product 2 e.g. soybean
  • the belt 4 has air transmitting openings 5 in it which let the air through but prevent the product 2 from falling off.
  • the belt 4 is entrained around two pulleys 6 which are constructed to be capable of stretching and driving the belt, for this purpose e.g. they can be indented.. or rubberised.
  • One of the sprockets 6 is driven by an electric motor 8 through a driving gear 7.
  • the loaded belt 4 of the belt conveyor transports the product 2 from the throat 3 through the drying compartment 25 which is situated in the casing 9 of the drying apparatus, then through gate 10 transports it to a collector 11 from where the dried product is transported to the place of storing or utilization by a belt conveyor or a pulley not shown in the figure.
  • the empty run of the belt conveyor passes under the casing 9.
  • blowers 17A, 17B, 17C and 17D driven by electric motors 23A, 23B, 23C and 23D, respectively, suck the air from the upper respective air collecting space 16 through/suction ports 22A, 22B, 22C and 22D, and force it through pressure tubes 18A, 18B, 18C and 18D and through openings 19A, 19B, 19C, and 19D to the lower air collecting space 12 respectively.
  • the air bubbling through bubbling caps 20 situated in the wall of the liquid vessel 13 - one of the caps 20 is shown in a magnified form in Fig.
  • the liquid vessel 13 which is provided with bubbling caps 20, in this embodiment functions as a contacting device 43 which brings about contact between the air. stream and the desiccant liquid.
  • the four blowers 17A, 17B, 17C and 17D bring about four closedly circulating partial air streams.
  • the first partial air stream goes through suction port 22D and meets the arriving wet product 2.
  • the second one goes through suction port 22C, the third through suction port 22B and the fourth through suction port 22A, and this last one extracts from product 2 the last part of moisture to be extracted.
  • the desiccant liquid gets into the liquid vessel 13 through pipe coupling 26 and departs through pipe coupling 27.
  • the arriving hot and active liquid is bubbled through by the air of the last partial air stream, qnd the departing, cooled and diluted liquid is bubbled through by the first partial air stream.
  • Another embodiment of the same type of arrangement, different from the embodiment shown in Figs. 2 to 4, is that the liquid vessel 13 is placed above the loaded run of the belt conveyor. This is advantageous when the product 2 contains particles small enough to fall into the liquid vessel 13 through openings 5 of the belt 4, and so to pollute the desiccant liquid to an unfavourable degree.
  • the air stream entering through openings 19A, 19B, 190 and 19D would first go through the product 2, then through the liquid layer 1.
  • Another advantage of this embodiment is that particles of one product 2 fallen through openings 5 of the belt 4 can be collected at the bettor of the casing 9 and from there can be transported away as dried product from time to time or continuously.
  • liquid drops which might have been carried away from the liquid layer 1 by the air stream, do not get to product 2 but having gone through the blowers 17A, 17B, 17C and 17D can be collected in pots or in channels formed in the bottom of tubes 18A, 18B, 18C and 18D, and from there can be fed back to the liquid circuit.
  • the pollutantswhich passed into the liquid layer 1 e.g. from the product 2 through openings 5 can be eliminated with the help of a separating tank,well-known in itself, which is inserted into the desiccant liquid circuit preferably after the pipe coupling 27 in such a way, for example, that the liquid pouring into the separating tank can only depart through openings placed at half-way to the full height of the liquid level in the tank.
  • the tank must be cleaned appropriately, the fluid must be skimmed and deposits must be removed.
  • the diluted desiccant liquid gets into the regenerator, in the case of the embodiment shown in Figs. 3 and 4, into a solution--condenser, which consists of a liquid circulating pump u 28, a vapor condenser 29 which is cooled by the arriving diluted solution, a pump 30 for removing the distillate, a steam-heated evaporator 31 and a pump 36.
  • the pump 28 pumps the dilated solution through condenser 29 as a cooling medium, from there the solution gets into the evaporator 31 through pipeline 32.
  • the evaporator 31 is heated by steam through pipe-joint 33 and the condensate of the heating steam departs through pipe-joint 34.
  • the steam evaporated from the solution gets to the condenser 29 from the evaporator 31 through a pipeline 35, there it gets condensed and the distillate is removed by the pump 30.
  • the system of the pump 30 is such that together with the distillate it is capable of removing the non-condensable gases, too.
  • From the evaporator 31 the condensed, active solution is pumped by a pump 36 through a pipeline 24 to the pipe-joint 26 through which it gets back to the liquid vessel 13.
  • This desiccant solution regenerator is also shown by way of a circuit diagram on Fig. 7 for the sake of better und erstanding.
  • FIGs. 2 to 4 show the simplest possible evaporator, which uses only the arriving solution to be regenerated as cooling medium for condensing the steam evaporated from the solution during the regeneration.
  • a multi-effect evaporator whose energetic efficiency is higher, for example as shown in Figs. 8 or 9 or a multi-stage flash evaporator for example as shown in Figs. 1 or 10.
  • Figs. 5 and 6 show another embodiment which works a with a horizontally moving product 50 and a contacting device 43 placed beside the product 50, bringing about a vertical liquid film 41 of a desiccant liquid.
  • the product 50 sawn wood in the drawing, is put in carriages 51 with wheels supported in bearings on axle 52, and moves very slowly forward on floor 49 in the direction of arrow 53. Above the top of the product 50 the drying compartment 40 is closed by a false roof 54
  • the whole drying apparatus is closed from above by to a shell-roof 65 to which the false roof 54. is connected by suspending columns 65A.
  • the shell-roof 65 is closed on two sides by walls 37 and 38 respectively; the walls have gates 39 in them for the product 50.
  • the air stream circulates in the direction of arrows 64 under the effect of blowers 66 and 66' driven by electric motors 46 and 46' respectively, built into a separation wall 69.
  • blowers 66 and 66' From the blowers 66 and 66' the air stream proceods between the shell-roof 65 and the false roof 54, then through an opening 47 of the false roof 54 it goes over into the drying compartment 40 between the floor 49 and the false roof 54, from there it gets to liquid films 41 of the contacting device 43, then through another opening 47A between the shell-roof 65 and the false roof 54 back to the . blowers 66 and 66'. As in the embodiment shown there are two blowers 66 and 66', two parallel partial air streams come about.
  • the contacting device 43 in this embodiment consists of three liquid film. modules 48A, 48B and 48C placed directly side by side. Each module has an individual liquid circulation and all modules have a common lower liquid outlet channel 62 through which they are connected to a regenerator, not shown herewith pipe-joints 67 and 68.
  • the active hot desiccant liquid coming from the regenerator enters through the pipe-joint 67, then gets more and more diluted by circulation in liquid film modules 48A, 48B and 48C as it passes the channel 62 in the direction of arrow 63, then through the pipe-joint 68 it gets into the regenerator,
  • the regenerator can be like the ones shown in Fig. 1 or Fig. 4 but multi-effect evaporators shown in figures 8 and 9 are also suitable, and so is multi-stage flash evaporator of Fig. 10.
  • the liquid film modules 48A, 48B and 48C are similarly constructed, for this reason we describe the liquid film module 48A, only.
  • An upper receptacle 55A is placed under false roof 54 and is bounded by a pile lock 56A.
  • a downwardly directed liquid distributing surface 57A is connected to the pile lock 56A .
  • liquid film conducting elements 58A e.g. fibres as shown in the drawing, going down.
  • all the elements 58A belonging to the liquid film module 48A together make up a liquid film group whose characteristic feature is that all the elements in the group conduct desiccant liquid of the same concentration.
  • the elements 58A reach down to the lower collecting channel 62 placed beneath.
  • a suction pipe 59A starts from the bottom of the channel 62 thus conducts the desiccant liquid to a liquid circulating .pump 60A.
  • the pump 60A circulates the liquid through a tube 61A into the upper receptacle 55A, from there through the pile lock 56A it gets to the liquid distributing surface 57A, and then, along the elements 58A into the lower collecting channel 62.
  • the upper receptacle 55A is separated from the upper receptacle of the neighbouring liquid film module 48B, but the common lower channel 62 makes it possible for the liquid circulating circuits belonging to tubes 61A, 61B and 61C pass liquid to one another through it.
  • Sections of lower channel 62 which belong to liquid film modules 48A, 48B and 48C, respectively are separated from one another by separating elements 162 provided with openings, so that the liquid stream is always flowing in the direction of arrow 63, without a mixing effeci backward.
  • the first liquid circulating circuit belonging to the first liquid film module 48C gets the hot and active liquid from the regenerator.
  • the two blowers 66 and 66' bring about two parallel partial air streams.
  • the velocity of each of the partial air streams should be of a value such that the liquid films along the conducting elements 58A, 58B and. 58C are not disturbed by the air stream, i.e. the air stream does not carry off liquid particles from the film.
  • a velocity of 1 to 5 m/sec is suitable.
  • the embodiment shown in Figs. 5 and 6 - similarly to that shown in Figs. 2 to 4 - carries out counter-current drying, as the product 50 moving slowly in the direction of arrow 53 while going through the drying compartment 40 meets air streams which had been contacted with more and more active desiccant liquid.
  • a prerequisite of said counter--current drying here, too, is to have at least two partial air streams. It is expedient to have one partial air stream belonging to each liquid film module 48A, 48B and 48C that is, the number of blowers should be equal to that of the liquid film modules.
  • the concentration of the desiccant liquids circulated in the liquid film modules 48A, 48B and 48C can be increased in a sequence different from that of the modules in space.
  • the sequence can be arranged as seems best with appropriate joining of individual sections of the channel 62 belonging to individual modules. For instance, from the section of the channel 62 belonging to liquid film module 48C the desiccant liquid can get into the section belonging to liquid film module 48A instead of the one belonging to liquid film module 48B through the separating element 162, and from there into the section belonging to liquid film module 48B.
  • the apparatus according to the invention can be programmed with regard to the drying requirements of the product 50 going through the drying compartment 40.
  • the contacting device 43 borders the drying compartment 40 on the left hand side, forming, as it were, a "liquid curtain".
  • the contacting device 43 can also be placed on the right hand side of the drying compartment 40, moreover it can be placed in such a way that it divides the drying compartment 40 into two parts, e.g. between the two stacks of wood shown in Fig. 5.
  • the only important thing is that the closed air stream should go through the contacting device 43 during recirculation, and the contacting device 43 and the drying compartment 40 are arranged and placed in such a way that the air stream suffers the least possible alteration of velocity and direction when going from one to the other. It is obvious that these conditions are fulfilled in all the embodiments mentioned.
  • the type of the contacting device 43 shown in Fig. 5 is the same as that shown in Fig. 1, but it can also be made in a different way.
  • Several contacting devices applicable in the apparatus according to the invention are described in U.S. Patents No. 3,857,911 and 4,009,229, in Hungarian Patent No. 168,451 and in British Patent No. 1,363,523.
  • an aqueous solution of calcium chloride in the concentration of 40 to 50 % as a desiccant liquid The pollution getting into the desiccant solution can be eliminated with a tank in the same way as described in connection to the embodiments shown in Figs. 2 to 4.
  • regenerator In Figs. 5 and 6 we do not show a regenerator as it can be the same as that in any of Figs. 1, 4, 8, 9 and. 10. With the appropriate selection of regenerator it is also possible to ensure for the active solution arriving through pipe-joint 67 to be as hot as is needed so that it can heat the air stream and through it the product 50. With the help of liquid film modules 48A, 48B and 48C it is possible to set a temperature program for the product 50 going through the drying compartment 40.
  • FIGs. 7, 8, 9 and 10 show various embodiments for the regenerator. Having considered that the regenerator comes about from different connecting of devices per se known, the various regenerators to be applied in the invention are shown in Figs. 7, 8, 9 and 10 only with circuit diagrams. For the sake of clarity we marked each operation with a separate schematic sign in the circuit diagrams but the invention can be realized also in such a way that, for instance, more than one device is placed into one casing.
  • Fig. 7 represents the circuit diagram of the regenerator shown in Figs. 2 to 4 and described in relation to these Figures in detail.
  • Fig. 8 represents a regenerator which uses the steam evaporated from the desiccant liquid for making to boil the liquid to be regenerated, and the steam coming of the departing active liquid heats the incoming diluted liquid.
  • This regenerator is a multi-effect evaporator.
  • the diluted liquid is pumped by a pump 70 into a condenser 71, there it serves as cooling medium for the condenser 71, then while cooling the liquid evaporating in heat exchangers 72 and 73 it gets warmed further, finally it gets into an evaporator 75 through a pipeline 74.
  • This evaporator 75 is heated from the outside with heat taken in.
  • steam is taken in through a pipe-joint 76, this gets condensed, and the condensate departs through a pipeline 77.
  • flue gas, radiant heat, solar energy or something else can also be used for heating.
  • a pump 83 pumps the liquid through the heat exchanger 72 to a pipe-joint 80 which is connected to a pipe-joint conducting the active liquid in the dryer body itself, e.g. to the pipe-joint 67 in Fig. 6.
  • the steam produced in the evaporator 79 through a pipeline 84 and the condensate of the steam heating the evaporator 79 through a throttle 81 get in the condenser 71 and both heat there the diluted, incoming desiccant liquid.
  • the condensed distillate and the non-condensable gases are removed by a pump 82.
  • Fig. 9 shows the circuit diagram of an embodiment of the regenerator which is also a multi-effect evaporator and uses the steam evaporated from the diluted liquid for heating the incoming diluted liquid to be regenerated.
  • the diluted liquid is pumped to a condenser 91 by a pump 90 as cooling medium, there it warms up, then cooling the departing already condensed liquid in the heat exchanger 92 it goes on warming and gets into an evaporator 93.
  • a pump 94 takes it through a heat exchanger 95, where cooling the active liquid it gets warmed, further to an evaporator 96.
  • it is evaporated with heat taken in from outside, for example with steam taken in through a pipe-joint 97.
  • the condensate of the steam departs through a pipe-joint 98.
  • the steam which had come about in the evaporator 96 boils the diluted liquid in the evaporator 93.
  • the condenseo, active liquid through a pipeline 99 gets into the heat exchanger 95, then into the heat exchanger 92, and departs through a pipe-joint 100 towards the dryer body e.g. to the pipe-joint 67 in Fig. 6.
  • the steam produced in the evaporator 93 gets into the condenser 91 through a pipeline 101, the condensate of the steam heating the evaporator 93 gets into the same place through a throttle 102, there it heats the diluted liquid, then the distillate produced by condensation and the non- gases condensable gases are carried away by a pump 103.
  • Fig. 10 shows the circuit diagram of a further embodiment of the legenerator in which the heat released during condensing the steam evaporated from the liquid by flash only warms the liquid to be regenerated cut does not evaporate it.
  • This regenerator is a multi-stage flash evaporator.
  • the diluted liquid is driven through condensers 112, 113 and 114 by a pump 111.
  • the liquid goes through a throttle 115.
  • the pump 111 and the throttle 115 are arranged in such a way that the pressure of the liquid when going through condensers 112. 113 and 114 is bigger than the saturation pressure all the way through, so vaporization does not occur anywhere.
  • the temperature of the diluted liquid serving as cooling liquid in condensers 112, 113 and 114 is increasing.
  • After the throttle 115 in an evaporator 116 steam is released from the liquid without heat transfer. This steam gets condensed in the condenser 113.
  • the liquid goes on to an evaporator 117 where more steam is released from it which gets condensed in the condenser 112.
  • the condensed active liquid that is left is carried back to the drying body by a pump 118, e.g. in Fig. 6 to the pipe-joint 67.
  • the distillate condensed in the condenser 113 through a pipeline 119 gets to the condenser 112, where it flashes.
  • the distillate and the non-condensable gases are pumped away by a pump 120.
  • the diluted liquid to be regenerated should be heated by heat taken in from outside, for example with steam taken in through a pipe-joint 121, the condensate of the steam departs through a pipe--joint 122.
  • Fig. 10 it is shown that when the surplus heat produced by the regenerator cannot be utilized in the drying body or when the heat lose of the drying body is little (e.g. in summer) the desiccant liquid regenerating system should be balanced.
  • the condenser 112 must be provided with cooling medium from the outside e.g. cooling water and coolable subsidiary surface e.g. coil pipe. This latter can be placed in a se arate casing, in such a case the steam spaces must be connected with pipelines. Cooling water can for example enter the heat exchanger through a pipe-joint 123 and leave it through a pipe-joint 124.
  • the diluted liquid entering the condenser 112 is pre-cooled in a heat exchanger 127 which is cooled by a medium e.g. water entering through a pipe-joint 125 and leaving through a pipe-joint 126.
  • a medium e.g. water entering through a pipe-joint 125 and leaving through a pipe-joint 126.

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