Sawdust Drying 

Sawdust generated at sawmills, furniture factories, and wood panel manufacturing plants is one of the most abundant industrial biomass by-products in India’s growing timber and wood processing sector. As-generated sawdust typically carries moisture content of 30–55% depending on whether the source timber is green lumber or kiln-dried wood. This high moisture content renders sawdust economically marginal as a fuel or raw material for panel board, pellet, and composite manufacturing until it is properly dried. Kerone Engineering Solutions manufactures sawdust drying systems engineered to address the specific challenges of fine-particle wood waste: its extremely low bulk density, high dust explosion risk, propensity for surface drying followed by internal moisture migration, and the tendency to form deposits in standard rotary dryer internals if flight geometry is not optimised for fine, fibrous material. Kerone’s sawdust dryers deliver consistent outlet moisture in the 8–15% range required by particleboard manufacturers, pellet mills, briquette producers, and biomass power plants.