Gea Process Engineering A/s

Alexander William Lear

Poul-Erik Aagaard

Zahé Daw

A dryer for drying a liquid feed into a powder comprises a drying chamber defined by a chamber wall including a bottom wall portion; a feed inlet for receiving the liquid feed and dispersing particulate feed into the drying chamber; at least one air inlet for entering drying air into the drying chamber; and at least one drying chamber outlet for dried powder and/or spend drying air from the drying chamber. The feed inlet comprises a decanter centrifuge with an axis of rotation; a first axial end; a second axial end; and a solid phase outlet at the first axial end.

Dryer and a method for drying a liquid feed into a powder

The invention relates to a screw press apparatus () comprising an outer casing () surrounding a screening tube () with a plurality of liquid discharge holes, a slurry inlet port () at one end of the screening tube and a solids discharge port () at an opposite end of the screening tube, the screening tube housing an axially located auger (), the outer casing () having a first opening in fluid communication with the slurry inlet port (), a second opening in fluid communication with the solids discharge port (), and a third opening () in fluid communication with the liquid discharge holes of the screening tube (), a cleaning device () located between the outer casing and the screening tube, a device () for axially moving the cleaning device. The cleaning device () has a rigid co-axial liquid supply pipe () having at least one washing pipe () at least partially surrounding the screening tube (), each at least one washing pipe () containing a plurality of nozzles () facing the screening tube (). The screw press apparatus is especially suited for processing protein containing slurries, and in another aspect the invention relates to a method of producing a gluten product using the screw press apparatus.

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Alexander William Lear