Aluminum Sow Dryers
Aluminum Manufacturing
Aluminum is the most widely used metal in the world. We use aluminum to create various items, such as: cars, baseball bats, cans, windows, foil, utensils, tools, etc. The 3rd most abundant metal in nature, aluminum, is not frequently found in its purest form.
While aluminum is the 3rd most abundant metal in the world today, it is the most widely used. Aluminum is a strong, lightweight, non-magnetic metal. For over 110 years we’ve been relying on the same process to produce it.
Aluminum begins as bauxite ores. The ores are crushed and then refined through the “Bayer’s process” ; a process that results in the production of aluminum oxide (alumina). The alumina is then smelted to make molten aluminum, which is 99.8% pure. (more…)
Gun Style Air Heater: A Direct Fired Air Heater
Overview of Gun Style Air Heaters:
Stelter & Brinck designs and manufactures three types of Direct Fired Air Heaters: Packaged Air Heaters, Duct Style Air Heaters and Gun Style Air Heaters. This post will focus on Gun Style Air Heaters.
This type of air heater is used in applications where the air stream is dirty or low in oxygen. Gun Style Air Heaters provide the highest mass flows and air temperatures of the 3 styles of Direct Fired Heaters. As suggested by the name, this type of heater looks like a barrel, built around the combustion components. (more…)
Packaged Air Heater Overview
Packaged Air Heaters are a type of Direct Fired Air Heaters, used in industries such as: chemicals, dyes, paints, molds, ect. Packaged Process Air Heaters are “all in one” systems- skidded, packaged units- comprised of a direct fired burner, process supply blower, valve train and control panel.
Stelter & Brinck Packaged Air Heaters can be natural gas, propane or butane fired. We can design and build these heaters to be high temperature, low emissions and of stainless steel construction per your unique application. They are designed to be easy to use and install, built as a package to be able to plug and play. (more…)
Duct Air Heater Overview
Duct Air Heaters are one type of direct fired air heater used in industrial applications. These industrial heaters provide the hot air used to manufacture everything from clay and brick to coal and glass. Duct Air Heaters earned their name due to the fact that they are designed to be inserted right into the process ductwork. These heaters most often fire on natural gas, propane and butane.
Stelter & Brinck Duct Air Heaters Models & Pictures:
- Fresh Air Duct Section Air Heaters: the burner uses the “fresh air” present in the process air stream; do not require an additional combustion air source.
Duct Air Heater- Stelter & Brinck- Fresh Air Duct Section
Image: Stelter & Brinck’s Fresh Air Duct Section, Duct Air Heater