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Dryer drainage by recirculation with primary and secondary dryers

US4447964A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateNov 23, 1981
Grant dateMay 15, 1984
Priority date
Expiry dateNov 23, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
  • CPC primaryD21F5/028
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A steam dryer system for drying a moving web and including a primary series of rotatable drying drums, steam inlet conduits coupled to said rotatable drying drums for introducing steam thereinto, outlet conduits coupled to said rotatable drying drums for exhausting blow-through steam with noncondensible gases and condensate therefrom, recirculation means including a steam jet compressor to recirculate blow-through steam from said outlet conduits back to said inlet conduits, recirculation control means comprising instruments to measure velocity pressure of the recirculation flow and to control the action of said jet compressor, a further number of secondary drying drums having inlet conduits and a pressure control valve connected to the outlet of said jet compressor and with outlet conduits connected to a condenser, and pressure control means comprising instruments to measure and control the input pressure in said secondary drying drums.

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