Drying of Polymers & Resins

This page lists polymers & resins which have been dried*/ agglomerated/ granulated on GEA Niro spray dryer, fluid bed dryers, airstream drying systems, flash dryers, freeze dryers, spray drier absorbers, agglomerators and granulators.

Note: GEA Niro supplies the technology of spray drying, fluid bed drying, flash drying and freeze drying for drying the products listed below. We do not however supply these products.

Drying of Polymers & Resins on GEA Niro Plants

• Acrylonitrile butadiene resin (AB)
• Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene resin (ABS)
• Ethylene-vinyl acetate
• Expandable Polysterene (XPS)
• Melamin formaldehyde resin (MF)
• Paraformaldehyde (PFA)
• Phenol formaldehyde resin
• Polyacrylate (PMMA)
• Polyacrylonitrile Polyamide (PAN)
• Polycarbonate (PC)
• Polyethylene (HDPE)
• Polyethylene terephthalate
• Polyformaldehyde (polyacetal) (POM)
• Polypropylene (FP)
• Polystyrene (PS)
• Polyvinyl acetate (PVAc)
• Polyvinyl alcohol (PVAl)
• Polyvinyl butyral (PVB)
• Polyvinyl butyrate (PB)
• Polyvinyl chloride emulsion-type (e-PVC)
• Polyvinyl chloride suspension-type (s-PVC)
• Polyvinyl pyrrolidone
• Polyvinylidene chloride
• Styrene acrylonitrile resin (SAN)
• Styrene butadiene resin (SB)
• Urea formaldehyde resin

* (term 'drying' incorporates various drying procedures like freeze drying, spray drying, fluid bed drying, drying through vortex disintegrator driers, flash drying, spray drying absorber, drying through agglomerator and granulator)

For information about GEA Barr-Rosin's combined Fluid Bed Crystallizer and Column Dryer for polymer and co-polymer chips please access this page http://www.barr-rosin.com/applications/polyester.asp