Why use a TORBED Dryer as opposed to an Industrial Belt Dryer?
With COP31 approaching, it’s a good time to ask how much material it takes to build an industrial dryer and how much waste it can prevent over its working life. We’ve sold nearly 50 industrial TORBED dryers, mainly for food and biomass. We’ve also supplied dryers for mineral applications, including a microwave-assisted unit designed to […]
Industrial Waste Combustor
Industrial waste can be a disposal challenge—but it can also contain useful energy. A TORBED industrial waste combustor offers a way to recover that energy through controlled thermal processing. In the TORBED processor, high-velocity gas flows through a bed of particles, creating vigorous movement and excellent contact between the gas and the material being processed. […]
TORBED Industrial Gasifiers: Energy and Carbon Sequestration
Why gasify biomass? An industrial gasifier offers flexibility in power generation method, although it also brings some additional complexity and challenges. Gasification can also help make use of biomass rich in alkali metals. These materials can melt and sinter if overheated, making temperature control particularly important. A further opportunity is the recovery of some of […]
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 […]