The TORBED processor is our core technology.
Originally conceived to improve on conventional technologies for exfoliation of mica to produce vermiculite, the TORBED processors were designed to ensure thorough processing of raw materials with minimum waste and maximum efficiency, reducing both capex and opex.
We have deployed our revolutionary TORBED technology across many industries, delivering long lasting benefits in cost saving, resource efficiency, energy efficiency, and many other industry specific areas.
TORBED processors present a highly efficient alternative to machines, for example such as for use as an industrial belt dryer, an industrial rotary drum dryer, a rotary kiln for calcining or a fluidized bed gasifier.
The Basics
The cornerstone of the TORBED technology is the design of the processor geometry and the stationary blades which dictates the flow patterns within the processor.
The developed flow patterns interact with the solids in the TORBED processor, and the solids fluidise, creating a TORoidal fluidised BED, hence the name! The motion developed in the bed retains particles within the processor even at very high gas speeds.
High gas velocities are important as they create the conditions for fast reaction rates. A high speed gas strips away the boundary layer around a particle, exposing it to heat or to reactants and intensifying the process. The TORBED does this without entraining the particles in the gas stream, which would reduce the intensification that is otherwise achieved.
The benefits of this technology are myriad, and surface in different ways depending on the application (for example for use as an alternative to a conventional industrial fluidized bed gasifier, an industrial rotary drum dryer, a rotary kiln or an industrial waste combustor) that the TORBED processor is being used for.
If you are considering a process that requires gasses and solids to interact (gas, solid contacting) go to our processes page and explore how we might help you.
Processes
The TORBED Technology offers an efficient and often more effective alternative to conventional technologies, including rotary kilns, fluidised beds and circulating fluidised beds, Combusters, gasifiers, drum dryers, belt dryers and rotary hearths.
We can change the way you process
News
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The TORBED as an Industrial Waste Combustor
Torbed processors have been employed treating industrial waste since 1987. On some projects these involve the TORBED in its role as an industrial Waste combustor: burning waste wood, combusting the material found at the bottom of oil tanker’s tanks, burning hydrocarbons off waste asphalt and ...
Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion Technology and The Torbed Processor
One of the key features of a TORBED processor is process intensification: making the process happen in a more concentrated way. A result of this is that a TORBED processor of any given capacity is smaller in scale than a conventional circulating fluidised bed of ...
The Torbed Processor: A Modern Industrial Gasifier
We sold our first TORBED gasifier in 2006. Use of a TORBED processor as a gasifier is one of several thermal biomass processes including drying, torrefaction, gasification and combustion for which our technology is suited. We have treated at test or commercial scale sewage sludge, ...
The Torbed Processor: an Alternative to a Rotary Kiln for Calcining
In calcining applications, rotary kilns and TORBED reactors differ mainly in their operating principles, heat transfer characteristics, and processing speed. A rotary kiln is a long, slightly inclined rotating cylindrical furnace in which solid materials slowly move from the feed end to the discharge end ...
The TORBED Fluidized Bed Gasifier
The TORBED processor can be configured as a specialized fluidized bed gasifier (FBG), is a robust thermal conversion system that transforms solid fuels—such as coal, biomass, or municipal waste—into a combustible synthesis gas (syngas):essentially an oxygen-starved (and often lower temperature) partial combustion process that produces ...
Fluidized Bed Combustion Technology: A Business‑Focused Overview
Fluidized bed combustion (FBC) technology has emerged as a versatile and environmentally resilient solution for large‑scale power generation and industrial heat applications. By suspending finely ground solid fuel particles in a stream of heated air and inert material (typically sand), the system creates a “fluidized” ...