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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7347009 | Clothes dryer with a dehumidifier A clothes dryer with a dehumidifier is disclosed. The clothes dryer includes a cabinet, a drying container rotatably installed in the cabinet, a driving unit for supplying a rotational force to the drying container, a first air passage connected to a side of the dry... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337553 | Lint detector methods and apparatuses Methods and apparatuses of for detecting lint are disclosed. In one embodiment, a light is directed to a plate. The light can be being emitted by a light source. A reflectometer is calibrated to a specific thermal emissivity of the plate. The thermal emission result... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7169432 | Toasted soybean flakes and method of making same The invention relates to toasted full fat, enzyme active soybean flakes, and method of making same. The inventive flakes are excellent for use in hot and cold cereal compositions including with rolled oats, in soybean flakes-potato flakes compositions for making soy... | 01/30/2007 |
| 6898867 | Air compression variable heating system A compressed air supply system for an air drying device such as a blow-off air knife or compressed air manifold with nozzles directed at articles passing on a conveyor therebeneath is provided with a recirculation loop. An adjustably variable portion of the compress... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6742284 | Energy efficient tobacco curing and drying system with heat pipe heat recovery The invention is a drying system and a method for its use, the drying system having a container containing a product to be dried and a dryer. The dryer includes an inlet for providing the drying air, a drying air pathway, and a furnace for heating the drying air. Th... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6651357 | Web dryer with fully integrated regenerative heat source and control thereof Integrated web dryer and regenerative heat exchanger, as well as a method of drying a web of material using the same. The apparatus and method of the present invention provides for the heating of air and the converting of VOCs to harmless gases in a fully... | 11/25/2003 |
| 5636449 | Water removal from solid products and apparatus therefor A tube dryer system is used to remove moisture from solid commercial products. The present apparatus includes a condensate vessel that separates condensed steam from excess steam. The excess steam is passed through a thermocompressor and combined with inc... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5548906 | Vaporizing and concentration drying apparatus and method Vaporizing and concentration drying apparatus and method are disclosed. The apparatus and method prepare good quality of condensed water and save evaporation energy and are wide used in making contaminated waste water become distilled water and in purific... | 08/27/1996 |
| 4653198 | Plant for drying animal or vegetable material A plant for heat treating animal or vegetable material comprises apparatuses for two-stage or multi-stage heat treatment. A heat medium which is used in a second heat treatment apparatus (2), which follows a first heat treatment apparatus (1), consists of... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4644666 | Apparatus for drying a moist material by air heated by a heat pump In the method for drying moist agricultural products, the relative humidity of fresh air inducted from the environment is reduced by heating it so that the fresh air can take up moisture from the products to be dried. A portion of the thermal energy conta... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4523388 | Method for drying by vapor recompression Method for drying damp material by vapor recompression. The vapor (8) released by the damp material (4) circulating on the heating elements (2) of a vertical dryer is recompressed by means of a motor-compressor (9) so as to provide the heat-conveying flui... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4466202 | Energy-efficient evaporation process with means for vapor recovery A process is disclosed for the recovery and reuse of heat contained in the wet exhaust gases emanating from a solids dryer or liquor concentrator, particularly one in which drying or concentration is facilitated by purging the vapor with some noncondensab... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4426791 | Process and system for drying products and materials, such as wood This invention relates to a system exploiting the thermal energy of the atmosphere for the drying of wood or any other product or material, the humidity content of which has to be reduced to the humidity percentage normally required for the use of the pro... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4332092 | Process and apparatus for desolventizing and drying solvent wet materials There is a disclosed a process and apparatus wherein a solvent-enriched material is introduced into a desolventizer-toaster tower to form a desolventized material which is introduced into a dryer and heated in the absence of air to form a dried material a... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4329788 | Process for separating a gas and a condensable vapor A process is provided for the separation of a gas and a condensable vapor present in the gas. The vapor-containing gas is contacted in a condensation zone with a heat-exchange fluid to cool the gas whereupon the vapor condenses and is collected as condens... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4295282 | Heat and liquid recovery using open cycle heat pump system The present invention relates to the recovery of heat and/or condensable liquid from a gaseous environment utilizing an open cycle heat pump system. The open cycle heat pump system is employed to alter the temperature of a gas by compression, expansion, h... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4247991 | Industrial drying A gas drying system where the heat energy in the exhaust gas and the dried product is recovered to reduce the energy required to dry additional products.... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4242808 | Paper web drying system and process The paper web is directly contacted with superheated steam to evaporate the water in the paper web by direct contact and to remove some of the superheat from the steam. The exhaust steam is again superheated and recycled back to the direct contact dryer. ... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4205456 | Heat pump arrangement and method for material drying system A mechanical refrigeration system is arranged to function as a heat pump for the purpose of drying material, such as shelled corn for example, with ambient air being first passed through the refrigerant condenser to be heated, then passed through the mate... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4026035 | Dryer with low temperature heat recovery system The low temperature heat recovery system is used in combination with apparatus for drying a moving web of paper or the like and comprises a steam circuit, a gas circuit and a refrigerant circuit. The steam circuit recovers condensed steam from the rotary ... | 05/31/1977 |
