In early October, a record number of 28 dryer customers from around the world participated in Geelen Counterflow’s Dryer & Cooler Training 2018.
Dryer customers from Ecuador, Peru, Japan, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Nigeria, Denmark, France, Serbia and Poland learned how to optimize their counterflow dryers for extruded aquafeed or pet food for best efficiency, uniformity and lifetime.
This was the 11th year Geelen Counterflow organized this training. During the three-day training, participants go back to school to learn about the thermodynamics of drying and cooling, relative humidity, dew point temperatures, wet bulb temperatures, mollier diagrams, enthalpy, sorption isotherms, diffusion coefficients, radiation, convection and so on.
The training days always start with theory and in the afternoon participants follow four different workshops about dryer process calculations, dryer controls, air systems, and process measurement. In addition to learning about the thermodynamics, subjects include sanitation, condensation control and sustainability.
Evening programs are filled with social activities and various networking opportunities with colleagues from around the world.
The next dryer training will take place in Haelen, the Netherlands, in October 2019.
