GEA Barr-Rosin

A world leader in industrial drying technology, combining over one hundred

years of drying experience

engineering for a better world

GEA Process Engineering

Welcome to GEA Barr-Rosin

GEA Barr-Rosin is a leading supplier of industrial drying systems and
offers numerous systems and technologies for drying wet materials
such as granules, cakes, sludges, powders and slurries.
Innovation, flexibility and a depth of process experience allow us to
offer a wide range of drying technologies for plant design. We custom
design our systems, based on our proven technology and Pilot Plant
testing/Research and Development, to meet our customers'
requirements

GEA Barr-Rosins Vision & Values

Excellence
Passion
Integrity
Responsibility
Diversity

With over 2500 references worldwide and based on innovation,

flexibility and depth of process experience GEA Barr-Rosin drives for
excellence. To maintain our leading position we continue to focus on
product quality, system reliability, energy savings and emission control.

Superheated Steam Dryer SSD

Drying, Cooling
and Calcining

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Flash and Ring Dryers

These are designed for products that dry rapidly, owing to
the easy removal of free moisture, or where any required
diffusion to the surface occurs readily.
Drying applications include: sludges, filter cakes, slurries,
crystals, granules and pastes, in fact, almost any
application requiring a powdered product can be
Flash/Ring dried.
Wet material is introduced into a stream of heated air
where it dries rapidly due to the high rates of heat and
mass transfer, whilst being conveyed through the drying
duct system.
Ring dryers incorporate a centrifugal classifier giving
selective internal recirculation of semi-dried solids
effectively lengthening the retention time of larger
particles in the dryer while finer material, which dries
more rapidly, exits the dryer with the exhaust air.

Corn Gluten Ring Dryer

Pig Manure Ring Dryer

Corn Protein Concentrate Ring Dryer

Fluidised Bed Dryers and Coolers

These are used for the controlled removal of
surface and bound moisture in powder,
crystalline and granular materials. They work
by gently drying or cooling over extended
residence times.
Hot or cold air is passed up through a
perforated distributor plate at a velocity
required to fluidize the material, that is, to take
on the characteristics of a bubbling liquid.
The gentle but intimate contact of drying/
cooling gas with the product ensures minimal
attrition and dust creation.
Configurations available include:
Vibrating
Stirred
Deep Fluidised Beds
Embedded Tubes
Integral drying/cooling
multiple stages
All as required by product and application.

Static Fluidised Bed Dryer & Cooler for Salt

High Temperature Fluidised Bed for Potash

Vibrating Fluidised Bed Cooler for Non-Dairy Creamer

Rotary Dryers, Coolers and Calciners

Combining flexibility with reliability, this type of dryer
handles a vast range of materials and is suited to the
most arduous conditions.
The design also permits the use of the highest possible
drying temperatures and is not sensitive to wide
variations in material size, moisture content or
throughput.
As the dryer rotates, material cascades through a hot
gas stream, using a series of peripheral flights to lift,
distribute and transport the material. The flights are
designed to suit the particular characteristics of the
material, which may vary with increasing dryness.
Other systems include Direct and Indirect Rotary
Coolers, Direct Fired Rotary Calciners and Indirectly
Heated Rotary Dryers and Calciners for fine and dusty
materials and lower temperature calcining applications.
Partial Gas Recycle Rotary Dryers for DDGS

Rotary Calciner & Fluid Bed Cooler

Rotary Dryer for Dextrose

Rotary Dryers for Phosphate Rock

Superheated Steam Dryer - SSD

SSD Ring Dryer

The unique SSD drying system is a closed-loop pneumatic dryer, where wet material is
dried in a stream of pressurized superheated steam, rather than air as used in
conventional flash dryers.
Drying in a steam atmosphere eliminates the risk of fire or explosion. The closed
pressurized system ensures no gaseous emissions to the atmosphere.
The conveying steam, at up to 4.0 barg, is indirectly superheated via a shell and tube heat
exchanger, using high/medium pressure steam or hot combustion gases.
The moisture evaporated from the solids creates excess steam, which is continuously
discharged at system pressure.
Up to 90% of the energy used for drying can be easily recovered from the excess
generated steam and used in other processes.

GEA Barr-Rosin designed Air Heater for SSD

Coal Heated SSD Ring Dryer for DDGS

Rosinaire Paddle Dryer

This indirectly heated contact dryer is particularly suitable for processing
hazardous materials and for the evaporation and recovery of solvents in
closed-cycle operation.
Wet material is conveyed into the stationary horizontal drying chamber.
The internal rotating paddles create a thin layer of material along the jacketed
wall of the vessel. Heat is transferred by conduction and moisture is vaporised.
A small counter-current flow of gas is used to carry the evaporated vapour out
of the Rosinaire.
The paddles are adjustable to set the residence time of the solids within the
vessel, typically from 0.5 to 20 minutes.
The Rosinaire can be designed with multiple-zone heat transfer jacket
sections that can use a variety of heating media.

Rosinaire Rotor

Rosinaire

Rosinaire Paddles

Rosinaire Rotor removal

Column Dryers and Coolers

These are designed for drying free-flowing materials such as amorphous or
crystalline powders and granules to very low levels of residual moisture or
volatile content. With long residence times obtainable, columns are frequently
used for diffusion-controlled processes.
The column is designed for plugflow and incorporates a special gas
distribution cone to ensure uniform counter-current gas flow up through the
material.
Residence time can vary from 1 to 24 hours, depending on the required
diffusion rate of moisture through the material.
Column Coolers transfer 90-100% of heat to cooling water flowing through
tubes suspended across the column of slowly moving hot material.
The column is designed as a mass flow vessel giving uniform residence time
and even providing cooling to all the solids.

Contact Column Cooler

Removable Tube Bundle

Pilot Plant
Comprehensive testing of clients materials

Vibrating Fluidised Bed Pilot Plant

Rotary Pilot Plant Dryer

At GEA Barr-Rosin we have extensive pilot plant facilities, located

in the UK and Canada. This enables comprehensive testing of
clients materials on our full range of equipment.
A well-equipped laboratory is also located on each site to provide
rapid analysis of moisture contents, bulk density and particle size
distribution. We use local laboratories for more specialist analyses.
In addition to the equipment available in our test facilities, some is
available for hire for on-site testing.
Conditioning System Pilot Plant

Information is available on request.

Rosinaire Pilot Plant

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Experience
GEA Barr-Rosin is a world leader
in industrial drying technology,
combining over one hundred
years of drying experience.
GEA Barr-Rosin is part of the
Process Engineering segment of
the GEA Group.

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GEA Barr-Rosin
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GEA Process Engineering Ltd.

92 Prevost Street, Boisbriand, Quebec J7G 2S2, Canada

Free: +1 (800) 561 8305, Tel : +1 (450) 437 5252
Fax: +1 (450) 437 6740
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48 Bell Street, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 1BR, United Kingdom

Tel: +44 1628 641 700
sales.barr-rosin.uk@gea.com, www.gea.com

GEA Process Engineering Inc.

1600 OKeefe Road, Hudson, WI 54016, USA
Free: +1 (800) 561 8305, Tel : +1 (450) 437 5252
Fax: +1 (450) 437 6740
sales.barr-rosin.ca@gea.com, www.gea.com

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GEA Group is a global engineering company with multi-billion euro sales and operations in more than
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