Mining Company Testimonial

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For seven generations, a family-owned New York mining company has produced the world’s highest quality garnet abrasives and powders. Since 1878, these high-performance garnet abrasives have been mined and milled from a unique crystalline hard rock deposit. The company’s products are used in applications such as waterjet cutting, blast media, bonded and coated abrasives, and…

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Did you know that indirect fired air heaters are used in manufacturing tobacco extracts?

Some products made with tobacco also require tobacco extracts, such as cigarettes. When manufacturing cigarettes, the paper must be flavored using tobacco extracts. These extracts are generated by: Processing the tobacco with water and alcohol to make the tobacco liquescent. Using a spray dryer to provide a more concentrated tobacco extract. In order to create…

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Is your Equipment Reliable?

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Backed by our in-house engineering team, our experienced service technicians can bring your combustion equipment up to NFPA standards through the following: Preventative Maintenance/ Burner Tune/ Safety Checks Field Rebuilds Retrofitting Repairs Upgrades Customer Success Story: Situation A global leading supplier of fiber-reinforced composites, realized that the air heaters for each of their 5 oven…

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Process Air Heaters – Brief Overview

Process Air Heaters

Stelter & Brinck designs and manufactures 4 types of air heaters: Indirect Fired, Duct, Packaged, and Gun Style. The Duct, Packaged and Gun Style units are all direct-fired process air heaters. Each of the 4 styles of heaters is custom designed for your application and available in different models. 1. Indirect Fired Air Heater is…

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Where is heat used in Lime Manufacturing?

Where is heat used in Lime Manufacturing?

In our last post, we discovered that cement manufacturing utilizes limestone. Therefore, we decided to focus on lime manufacturing this week! Originating with its earliest use as building mortar, lime has many end uses today: steel manufacturing, asphalt, plaster, sugar refining, wastewater treatment, and many others! Lime Production Infographic The National Lime Association has provided detailed lime…

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What’s the difference: Direct Vs Indirect Fired Heaters?

What is the technical difference between direct fired and indirect fired? In terms of process air heaters, what are the features, benefits and applications of direct fired vs indirect fired? Direct Fired “Direct Fired” means just that; the burner is fired directly into the process air stream to heat it. Air heaters that are direct…

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Fluid Bed Dryers & Process Air Heaters

The fourth and final type of dryer that we will discuss that utilizes air heaters is a fluid bed dryer (or fluidized bed dryer). According to Wikipedia: “A fluidized bed is formed when a quantity of a solid particulate substance is placed under appropriate conditions to cause the solid/fluid mixture to behave as a fluid.” Fluid Bed Diagram…

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Industrial Hot Air Generators for Dryers

Are you in need of hot air for your industrial dryer? Indirect fired or direct fired air heaters are used as a hot air generator for many types of industrial dryers.  The wet material being dried with every type of dryer determines whether the process utilizes a direct fired air heater or an indirect fired…

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