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
Our processors have capabilities in a range of gas-solid contacting processes from high temperature flash calcination to low temperature drying across a diverse range of industries. Often our processors offer an alternative to less resource-efficient conventional technologies including, for example industrial belt dryers, industrial fluidized bed gasifiers, rotary kilns for calcining and rotary drum dryers. Find out about some of the processes for which our technology has been used and see if we could assist you.
