Abstract:
A dryer for drying a liquid feed (11, 11') into a powder (35) comprises a drying chamber (3) defined by a chamber wall (5) including a bottom wall portion (7), a feed inlet for receiving the liquid feed (11) and dispersing particulate feed (13) into the drying chamber (3), at least one air inlet (15) for entering drying air into the drying chamber (3) and at least one drying chamber outlet (17) for dried powder and/or spend drying air from the drying chamber (3). The feed inlet comprises a decanter centrifuge (9) having an axis of rotation (19), a first axial end (21), a second axial end (23) and a solid phase outlet at the first axial end (21). The drying chamber has a common drying chamber outlet (17) for dried powder and spend drying air. A product conduit (25) is connected to the common drying chamber outlet for pneumatic conveyance of the dried powder through the product conduit. The air inlet (15) is configured to provide a swirl of drying air inside the drying chamber (3). The drying chamber (3) generally has a disk-shape with a circumferential wall (31), a part of which constitutes the bottom wall portion (7). The drying chamber (3) has a tangential drying chamber outlet (17) and preferably a tangential air inlet (15) for entering at least part of the drying air.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a process for production of a concentrated coffee product, comprising the steps of providing a coffee concentrate obtained from roast and ground coffee beans and adding spent coffee grounds having an average particles size of 0.1- 0 µm to the coffee concentrate. The concentrated coffee product findsuseful applications for spent coffee grounds, increasesthe yield of roast and ground coffee beans, makes it possible to design new properties, and/or improves thedigestive effect and/or mouth feel.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a process for preparing a coffee extract, comprising the steps of: providing a mixture of roasted coffee beans and water, milling the mixture of roast coffee beans and water in a pressurised chamber, and separating the milled mixture in a liquid coffee extract and spent coffee grounds. The coffee extract maintains many of the flavour components of the roasted beans.
Abstract:
The present invention relates generally to the field of emission control equipment for boilers, heaters, kilns, or other flue gas-, or combustion gas-, generating devices (e.g., those located at power plants, processing plants, etc.) and, in particular to a new and useful method and apparatus for reducing and/or eliminating various liquid discharges from one or more emission control equipment devices (e.g., one or more wet flue gas desulfurization (WFGD) units). In another embodiment, the method and apparatus of the present invention is designed to reduce and/or eliminate the amount of liquid waste that is discharged from a WFGD unit by subjecting the WFGD liquid waste to one or more drying processes, one or more spray dryer (or spray dry) absorber processes, and/or one or more spray dryer (or spray dry) evaporation processes.
Abstract:
The rotary atomizer is intended for a spray drying apparatus and comprises a feed supply pipe (104), a drive motor (102), a drive shaft (107), one or more bearings (111, 112, 113) supporting or guiding the drive shaft, and an atomizer wheel (106). At least one of the bearing or bearings (111, 112, 113) is a foil bearing. An additional supply device (114) for air or gas may be provided to be connected to the at least one foil bearing (111,112). Furthermore, the additional supply device (114) may be connected to further opening into a position nearby the atomizer wheel (106) by means of a branch connection (115).
Abstract:
A nozzle for cleaning-in-place of a vessel has a nozzle body to be connected to a wall of the vessel and defining an opening, a nozzle insert is contained within the nozzle body and is able to assume at least two distinct positions relative to the nozzle body, a first position in which the nozzle insert is retracted into the nozzle body and a second position in which the nozzle insert is advanced in the axial direction relative to the nozzle body and protrudes into the vessel. Apertures are exposed in the second position to allow distribution of a cleaning fluid. The nozzle insert has two nozzle insert parts, in mutual abutment in the first position and spaced from each other in a direction transverse to the axial direction in the second position to form a gap between adjacent nozzle insert parts, the apertures being exposed in the gap.