Heat Pump Tower Dryers 

Kerone engineers Heat Pump Tower Dryers around the specific flow characteristics, bulk density and terminal velocity of your material, since poor tower design is a common cause of channeling, where air finds a path of least resistance through the material column and leaves pockets of under-dried product. Our team calculates air distribution plenum design, screen or louvre configuration and product residence time in each zone to ensure uniform exposure across the full cross-section of the tower, not just the centre of the column. Kerone’s towers integrate a heat pump refrigeration circuit for the drying air with a straightforward ambient or chilled-air path for the cooling zone, giving customers a single tower structure that both dries and cools in one pass, reducing the equipment and floor space that would otherwise be needed for separate systems. With five decades in industrial thermal processing, Kerone also brings established expertise in material handling interfaces, so your tower integrates cleanly with upstream elevators or conveyors and downstream storage or bagging systems. Kerone also engineers discharge metering devices to control the rate at which product exits each zone, since uneven discharge flow is a frequent cause of inconsistent residence time and, consequently, inconsistent final moisture content across a tower’s cross-section.