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Fläkt Dryer
World leading pulp drying technology

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The Fläkt Dryer for High Quality Pulp

The Fläkt Dryer is the result of Customers around the world are Many mills choose to replace their
expericence gained from more than benefiting from our unique old drying equipment to increase
500 pulp dryer installations since experience to produce high quality pulp production. Higher pulp
1928 and a continous research and pulp efficiently and reliably in cost- brightness reduced maintenance,
development work in the pulp drying saving dryer systems. labour and energy costs are other
field. More than two-thirds of the motives. A new Fläkt Dryer can
world’s pulp is dried in Fläkt dryers satisfy all of these requirements.
today.

More capacity in less space.... Low web tension for high operating reliability
The bottom blow boxes, an exclusive Fläkt design
utilizing the Bemoulli principle, lift the web clear of the
drying deck and locate it at a fixed distance above the
bottom blow boxes.
With this design, the sheet can be dried with minimal
web tension, without sheet flutter.
Because the Fläkt Dryer operates with web tensions
substantially below those of other air and cylinder
dryers, it can handle pulp sheets of lowest tensile
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strength.

The Fläkt Dryer requires less space for a specific

production rate or provides more capacity in a given ........ for CTMP, too
machine room when replacing an old dryer. Birch, beech, eucalyptus, mixed tropical hardwood and
...... due to an efficient heat transfer system CTMP are examples of low tensile strength pulps that
are being effectively dried in Fläkt dryers today.
The Fläkt Dryer is compact because of it’s high-
efficiency air impingement system on both sides of the
pulp web. The system provides uniform and high heat
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transfer to the pulp web.
Due to the close distance between the web and further
improved bottom Bernoulli blow boxes, heat is transfer-
red efficiently to the bottom surface of the web. The top
blow boxes allow the transfer of additional heat to
increase drying efficiency and cut drying time. The
overall result is a compact dryer design.

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Low pulp web temperature for high quality pulp and brightness

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horizontal passes back and forth along the entire length

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Sheet cooler for fully bleached pulp

The Fläkt Dryer can be equipped with a sheet cooler The Fläkt Sheet Cooler is normally integrated with the
that cools bleached pulp before it is conveyed to the dryer but can be supplied as a separate unit. In the
cutter. There are a number of advantages to installing a integrated unit, the bottom deck is equipped with
sheet cooler: cooling air blow boxes and isolated from the drying
- Mininium brightness reversion during storage decks by insulated panels and the supply air plenum.
This arrangement provides a hot and dry interface
- No condensation during pulp storage and transport between the dryer and cooler to eliminate
- Longer cutter knife life condensation.
- More uniform bales

Internal air circulation system

The dryer is designed with a number of identical
vertical sections with steam coils for heating the drying
air. Axial fans distribute the drying air to the blow
boxes. The steam coils and fans are specially designed
and manufactured for the Fläkt Dryer.
Air enters the fan through the steam coils. After air is
distributed onto the sheet by the blow boxes, it is
returned between the blow boxes to the steam coil
compartment. The humidity of the air increases as it
circulates upward in the dryer. To optimize heat
economy, only a small percentage of the circulation air
is exhausted and replaced with make-up air.

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Two basic models to meet varying production needs

Fläkt Dryer model FCG Fläkt Dryer model FCS

FCG is the fully equipped Fläkt Dryer FCS is the economy version dryer speeds. The basic design and the
for high production rates. It has all for lower production rates up to operating ability of FCS is however
the auxiliary equipment necessary about 500 tpd. This dryer has the same as for model FCG.
for dryers of this size such as certain limitations when it comes to FCS Dryer equipped with an
movable platforms, broke removal machine height and web width. It integrated cooler is designated
device, Fläkt Tail Cutter and the has the single tape threading FCSC.
unique Fläkt folded tape threading system suited for lower threading
system.
The folded tape threading system
makes it possible to thread the tail
at normal machine speed up to 200
meters per minute. The tape runs on
separate pulleys and the tape
system is only engaged during the
threading.
Dryer model FCG equipped with an
integrated cooler is designated
FCGC.
The FCG is the successor to the
well-known FCL model of the Fläkt
Dryer.
Single tape threading system

Easy inspection

The top blow boxes of the Fläkt

Dryer can be lifted to allow
inspection of the drying decks.

Feeding of pulp tail into tape

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Web tension control

The pulp web travels over the dryer

decks via turning rolls at the end
sections. The turning rolls are
equipped with over-running
clutches that are free-running
during normal operation, with the The pull roll motor is controlled by the dryer. The web tension can be
web pulled by a nip roll arrange- web-tension load cells located at set up to the desired value by
ment at the outlet end. the inlet end of the dryer. Control means of the electronic equipment
panels are located at each end of in the control panel at the inlet end.

Cost-saving design with low energy consumption

Approximately two-thirds of all initial

Fläkt Dryer with cooler deck and ���������
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complete heat recovery boiler ��������������
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process water and ventilation air.
Steam consumption can be further
reduced by using blow-through
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steam from the dryer condensate
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Maintenance costs are low, due to
the robust design of the Fläkt Dryer
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fan impellers and rolls move during
operation). One mill with a 750 tpd
Fläkt Dryer reports that maintenance
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materials, averaged less than USD
0.05 per ton of pulp during the first
five years of operation.
Drying in a Fläkt Dryer results in low insulated panels and the compact
production costs, due to reduced design also minimizes the heat
energy consumption and main- losses.
tenance.
Drying air entering the bottom of
Since costs for heat energy for the dryer is continuously
drying pulp account for a large por- recirculated and reheated in the
tion of overall operating expenses internal air circuits before it is
for a drying line, the optimum exhausted into the heat recovery
solution is normally to install the system. The heat in the humid
dryer offering the lowest heat exhaust air is utilized primarily to
consumption. heat the make-up air supplied to
With its closed recirculating and the dryer. It can be further used to
reheating system, the Fläkt Dryer heat water and ventilation air for the
consumes much less energy than machine room and other sections
cylinder machines. The well- of the mill.
Heat recovery system for Fläkt Dryer
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Examples of Fläkt Dryer installations Auxiliary equipment Fläkt Web Guide

Examples of Fläkt Dryer installations Auxiliary equipment Fläkt Web Guide

Low web tension throughout the entire dryer is one of

the unique features of Fläkt Dryers. When operating
with low web tension, it is important to guide the web
properly to obtain uniform bales, or to minimize
trimming when using reels.
Low web tension throughout the entire dryer is one of
Fläkt Dryer FCGC , 2756 admt/d, Aracruz Celulose S.A., Brazil Theunique
the Fläkt Web Guide
features of controls the lateral
Fläkt Dryers. Whenweb operating
with low web tension, it is important edge
movement. The position of the web is detected
to guide the web
by an electronic
properly to obtainsensor.
uniformThis ensures
bales, or to aminimize
stable web run
under different
trimming operating
when using reels.conditions.

Fläkt Dryer FCGC , 2756 admt/d, Aracruz Celulose S.A., Brazil The Fläkt Web Guide controls the lateral web
movement. The position of the web edge is detected
Fläkt Dryer FCGC, Veracel Brazil.
by an Tail
Fläkt electronic
Cuttersensor. This ensures a stable web run
under different operating conditions.

Fläkt Tail Cutter

The Fläkt Tail Cutter using a water jet knife has proven
to be a very useful tool to facilitate the feeding of pulp
into the cutter lay-boy.
A high-pressure water nozzle is mounted on a carriage
powered
The Fläkt by
TailaCutter
frequency-controlled
using a water jet motor.
knife The
has water
provenjet
to be a very useful tool to facilitate the feeding of web
cuts the tail while the carriage moves across the pulp at
a preset speed. A
into the cutter lay-boy. collector located directly in front of
Fläkt Dryer FCGC, capacity 3230 admt/d,Hainan Changxiang the nozzle takes care of the used water and pulp fibers.
Trading Co. Ltd., China A high-pressure water nozzle is mounted on a carriage
For easy by
powered operation of the Fläkt Tail Cutter,
a frequency-controlled the entire
motor. The water jet
cuts the tail while the carriage moves across the and
cutting sequence is controlled by a PLC system web at
Fläkt Dryer FCGC, Hainan ChangxiangTrading Co. Ltd., China aonly onespeed.
preset operator is required
A collector to thread
located the cutter
directly in frontlay-
of
Fläkt Dryer FCGC, capacity 3230 admt/d,Hainan Changxiang boy.nozzle takes care of the used water and pulp fibers.
the
Trading Co. Ltd., China
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For easy operation of the Fläkt Tail Cutter, the entire
cutting sequence is controlled by a PLC system and
only one operator is required to thread the cutter lay-
boy.
Increase production with minimum downtime

Dryer replacements
Keeping production downtime to a minimum is usually
essential when an old dryer section is replaced.
Several pre-erection methods have therefore been
engineered, in which the dryer is partly, or completely,
assembled outside the machine room.
One frequently used method is to build the dryer in
modules and then move each module into place by
means of a crane, or by sliding the modules on rails.

A new 800 tpd Fläkt Dryer was installed to replace an old Fläkt
Dryer at Alicel, France. Production downtime was only three weeks
for the entire installation.

Dryer extensions

All Fläkt Dryers can be extended in height or length by

adding drying decks or drying sections. Experience has
been gained over the past 30 years from more than 30
dryer extensions all over the world. We have developed
special pre-erection and lifting techniques enabling us
to extend a dryer within a normal maintenance shut-
down period.

This Fläkt Dryer at Howe Sound P & P, B.C., Canada, was

extended in six days with six additional decks to boost capacity
from 750 tpd to over 1100 tpd.

Booster dryer

When used as a booster dryer or cooler in an existing

dryer line, the flexible Fläkt Dryer design has proven to
be very cost-effective by providing maximum drying
capacity in the available machine room space. The
booster dryer can be erected during operation thereby
minimizing downtime. The booster can be delivered
with an integrated cooler. For a separate Fläkt Sheet
Cooler the same layout as for the booster can be used.

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World leading pulp drying technology

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