A close relative of the industrial dryer is, of course, the small domestic dryer, like the clothes dryer. One of the earliest mechanical dryers was the ventilator, invented by a Frenchman named M. Pochon between and . His ventilator, which consisted of a perforated metal drum and a hand crank, presented people with a more efficient way to dry their clothes. To use it, they simply had to fill the drum with wet clothes and use the hand crank to turn it over an open fire. Pochon’s invention certainly had some flaws. For example, clothes dried this way usually smelled like smoke and could even become sooty. However, it laid the foundation for the modern tumble dryer.

When designing industrial dryers, manufacturers aim to create machines that are strong, corrosion resistant, and capable of handling the type of loads their customer requires. To make a custom dryer tailored to fit your needs, they consider specifications such as whether you will be engaging in continuous drying or you will be drying in batches, the size of your operation, the type/qualities of the material to be dried, and your standard requirements.

People have been drying food and clothing for thousands of years, using various mechanisms, including smoking, burying food in sand, freeze drying, sun drying, and wind drying. For thousands of years, people used drying as a way of preserving food for themselves and for trade. It wasn’t until the early s that people began mechanically drying food. One of the first sets of people to ever do so were the Frenchmen Chollet and Masson. They discovered that they could send wet, pressed vegetable pulp through a tunnel heated to ℉ in order to create dry cakes. While the cakes weren’t particular tasty, they were nutritious and much less perishable than other food. The precursor to modern rations, they were the ideal snack for soldiers and sailors.

As the presence of dryers became more solidified, scientists and engineers branched out and used dryers for other applications. They also upgraded their drying components, trading out old materials for stainless steel, and switching out trays for drums and screens. Today, the uses and capabilities of industrial dryers grow continually; they are increasingly essential to markets around the world. As time goes on, we can expect them to become more efficient and greener.

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