Heat Pump Hybrid Dryers 

Kerone designs Heat Pump Hybrid Dryers with control logic that automatically balances load between the heat pump and the secondary heat source based on real-time drying demand, rather than requiring operators to manually switch between heating modes, ensuring the system defaults to the more energy-efficient heat pump operation whenever it can meet the required drying rate and only calls on supplementary heating when genuinely needed. Our engineering team conducts an energy and process audit of your specific product, throughput and site utility availability, whether that is electricity, steam, thermal oil or recoverable waste heat from another part of your plant, to determine the optimal split between heat pump and secondary heating capacity for your situation. Kerone’s approach avoids the common failure of hybrid systems where the secondary heat source ends up running constantly because the heat pump was undersized relative to typical, not peak, demand, which defeats the purpose of installing a heat pump at all. With decades of experience across multiple heating technologies, Kerone is able to genuinely evaluate which secondary heat source makes sense for your site rather than defaulting to a single technology regardless of fit. Kerone also models seasonal and diurnal ambient condition variation for your specific site location when sizing the heat pump-to-backup ratio, since a hybrid system designed only around average annual conditions can underperform during the specific weeks of peak humidity or peak throughput that matter most to your production schedule.