Thermal Biomass Processing.
Our recent concentration has been on mineral-based applications, both drying and calcining. The attached picture shows a Torftech Licensee, Cedrus Sp z o.o. presenting TORBED Dryers at a biomass conference. Their presentations illustrates the broad range of materials for which TORBED dryers offer an effective solution Our thermal biomass processing applications cover a similar broad […]
A Busy Time: From High Volume Industrial Food Processing to Thermal Mineral Processing to Equipment For Circular Economy Solutions.
Our financial year is February. This year we celebrated if by being super busy. Paper Sludge Recycling: we handed over a paper sludge reprocessing plant to its sponsors. A great example of the our technology being used as circular economy solutions equipment, drying and calcining paper sludge to produce heat and a cement substitute. Mineral […]
We Offer Solutions for the Thermal Treatment of Minerals.
Last time we met this heat exchanger tower, it was on its side in a workshop in Poland. At the weekend, it was pictured in northern France, in brilliant sunlight, being lifted into place. Ultimately, it will be one of four towers in this heat exchanger. Once commissioned, they will together form part of a […]
Exporting Globally: From High Volume Industrial Food Processing to Industrial Catalyst Processing and Thermal Mineral Processing.
We recently completed a group of export statistics for the DBT. What stands out is that four out five of all the processors ever created and sold have been sold outside the UK. Our technology is British but has been and is being sold and installed all around the globe, such that 100% of our […]
From Thermal Mineral Processing to High Volume Industrial Food Processing.
Our attention has been taken recently with thermal mineral processing, with one plant producing a Supplementary Cementitious Material (a cement substitute) from paper sludge in the last stages of commissioning. A second plant, which will calcine waste clay (also to produce a Supplementary Cementitious Material) is undergoing assembly and installation. In the meantime and by […]
Thermal mineral processing and beyond.
The new year has brought plenty of activity with it. The attached picture is of a part of the heat exchanger with wrote about recently. This is one of twelve trucks that will take it from its fabrication site in Poland to its final home in France for installation and commissioning. We look forward to […]
At the Sharp End of Thermal Mineral Processing.
A few weeks ago, we shared a picture of a TORBED calciner being delivered to site. Here is another part of the same plant: a sixteen tonne twelve metre tower which forms part of the new plant’s heat exchanger being prepared for its journey to the same site in Northern France. This high-temperature, dirty-gas-stream gas-to-gas […]
T1000: A Workhorse of Industrial Food Processing.
We identify our TORBED processors by their internal diameter in millimetres. The T1000 is regularly used in both industrial food processing and in mineral processing. We sold our first T1000 for food applications in 1988. The oldest operational one will celebrate its 30th birthday next year. We are currently preparing a proposal for what, if […]
Carbon Reduction: Gas scrubbing and beyond.
As COP29 progesses against a background of floods in Europe and droughts in Africa, the need to reduce our carbon emissions and the level of carbon in the atmosphere becomes increasingly evident. As a technology company, this in our DNA. The raison d’être of our TORBED technology was to minimise resource use and enhance efficiency […]
CCS: is industrial gas scrubbing with Olivine the key to large scale carbon capture.
A few weeks ago, we published an item setting out details of work done by Newcastle University on dry gas scrubbing as a means of CO2 adsorption (The key starting point in any CCS process) and the particular effectiveness of the TORBED processor in industrial gas scrubbing applications. Some level of CCS is going to […]