TORBED vs Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion Technology: Intense Mixing, Even Processing, Compact Design
Thorough, even processing starts with effective mixing. The TORBED technologies’ intense gas–solid mixing keeps particles moving rapidly through a compact reactor, promoting uniform thermal treatment, avoiding local hot spots and supporting consistent product quality. Intensive mixing is at the heart of TORBED’s performance. Our process videos show that movement in action, bringing the technology’s operating […]
Torbed Technology Offers Efficient Alternative to Industrial Rotary Drum Dryers
Industrial facilities evaluating drying equipment now have a compelling alternative to traditional rotary drum dryers. Torbed processors, utilizing toroidal fluidized bed technology, deliver competitive throughput with superior energy efficiency and reduced footprint requirements. Modern Torbed units process up to 10 tonnes per hour, removing over 5 tonnes of moisture—capacity that rivals small-to-medium industrial rotary drum […]
Energy Saving Alternatives To A Rotary Kiln For Calcining
Can we cool matters down? Below is a recent blog from one of our colleagues suggesting possibilities for calcining spodumene that might have radical implications for process temperatures. “Could microwave energy change the way we process lithium? I have spent much of my working life looking at processes where the reactor can change the economics […]
The TORBED Advantage: Rethinking Rotary Kiln Calcining
Faster. Smaller. Simpler. Conventional rotary kilns have calcined materials the same way for over a century — slow, massive, and built around a compromise. TORBED technology changes the equation. Calcine in Seconds, Not HoursWhile rotary kilns need tens of minutes to several hours to calcine materials like limestone, kaolin, or gypsum, TORBED’s fluidized toroidal bed […]
Industrial Rotary Kiln: What’s In A Name?
In our mineral and businesses, we come across Rotary kilns regularly and they are described as such, whether being used to pyrolyse biomass for biochar or calcine minerals. For many applications we would argue that a TORBED processor would produce better outcomes. In the food industry, where we have made around 40% of our total […]
The TORBED Industrial Waste Combustor
Industrial wate covers a vast spectrum of by-products, emissions, leftovers, surpluses and residual materials. The TORBED processor has applications in treating many of these. Is combustion always the solution? For burning hydrocarbons out of spent catalysts or generating power and amorphous silica from rice husk, a TORBED Industrial Waste Combustor offers an effective solution, its […]
An Industrial Belt Dryer or a TORBED Dryer?
The first large-scale TORBED dryer system was installed in 2004 and has run successfully ever since. Drying is typically a low temperature process. It can be a first stage in preparing biomass for transportation or for further processing. TORBED dryers have: a much smaller footprint than conventional Industrial Belt dryers or rotary drum dryers. the […]
The TORBED Dryer, an Alternative to an Industrial Rotary Drum Dryer
The TORBED reactor and the Industrial rotary drum dryer are both gas–solid contacting devices used to remove moisture from particulate materials, but they operate on very different principles, which affects both their physical size and their sustainability profile. A rotary drum dryer consists of a slowly rotating, slightly inclined cylindrical shell, usually fitted with internal […]
Our Industrial Fluidized Bed Gasifier: A Revolutionary
The energy transition demands more than renewable generation. For industry, it requires smarter ways to handle the difficult fuels and waste streams that conventional technology has always struggled with — materials too variable, too low-grade, or too awkward to process cleanly and efficiently. That’s a problem Torftech has spent decades solving. Our industrial fluidized bed […]
TORBED Processors vs Rotary Kilns for Calcining
TORBED reactors and rotary kilns are both used for calcining, but they achieve thermal treatment in different ways. A rotary kiln is a slowly rotating, inclined cylinder in which material is heated over an extended residence time. This makes it suitable for large throughputs, variable feed materials, and calcination processes that benefit from gradual heating […]