What is the most important grouped equipment of egg tray making machine? It is egg tray dryer! There are three types egg tray drying systems available for your choice, and all of them have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Natural Drying in the Sun
- Suitable for a small scale egg tray production (suitable for 2000 pieces or less);
- Lowest egg tray drying cost and quick return on cost;
- Large area required for the site;
- Affected by temperature and wind, the natural drying method is adapted to the countries and regions with high temperatures throughout the year;
- Usually, it will take 4 hours to dry the molded pulp trays at 30℃ and 3 hours at 38-40℃;
- Needs labor; suitable for areas with cheap labor.
Brick Egg Tray Dryer
- Automatic drying method; economical and practical;
- Suitable for 2500 pieces and above; medium scale production;
- The brick egg tray drying machine needs to use a lot of refractory bricks, refractory materials, red bricks, cement boards and other materials for customer’s site construction (so the customers shall pay attention to the local cost of the bricks.);
- The drying of egg trays is not affected by the weather, and the drying effect is good;
- The acceptable fuels are natural gas, diesel, coal, and wood (the specific requirements shall be different in different areas and countries due to emission standards).
- Not suitable for the places where bricks are expensive;
- It is single-layered, so it needs enough land space;
- Needs less labor;
Now we move to the drying system of the plant.
- What our client built is a brick drying system. The overall length of this is about 70m. Many customer choose to use metal dryer for a big capacity like this in order to save some space. For the metal dryer is can reduce to only 45m long.
- This is the combustion chamber with natural gas burner, it can also be heated by diesel, LPG or even coal. This blower working with the burner.
- The structure inside is symmetrical, with two blower on each side it creates a circulation of hot air inside. The drying efficiency of this system is high, after about 20 minutes the wet eggtray will come out dry and sturdy.
- At last we arrive at the end part of the process where the eggtray come out and being collected. Usually 2-3 people will be working around this area.
- That is the auto tray collector. It also count the number by sensors and show on the dashboard on the other side.
- From here we will weigh the trays and pack it. Usually we pack it with 70pcs/pack or 100pcs/pack depending on buyers request. The weight of each tray here is about 100g, overseas is about 80g.
- Once it’s packed the size will reduce. Then we bag it and put aside waiting for truck to transport it out. If you are interested in the business don’t hesitate to contact us.
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Metal Egg Tray Drying System
- Automatic drying method;
- Used for the customers who limited land space; less floor area but higher cost and efficiency;
- There are two kinds of metal egg tray drying systems, the single layer and the multiple layers, so the customer can choose according to the actual production scale;
- You cannot use coal or wood as the fuel to heat the metal drying system; natural gas and diesel is OK;
- The drying of egg trays is not affected by the weather, and the drying effect is good;
- Beautiful appearance and convenient installation; customers do not need to prepare installation materials;
- Good heat preservation effect, good egg tray drying effect;
- Almost does not need labor. Video on Youtube here.
Dear friends, this is a complete structure of a BTF 5-8 metal drying egg tray machine. It is about to be shipped.
- Follow me let’s take a look of the inner layout of the metal dryer.
- Let’s go inside
- Although it’s still empty, we can see the upper and lower sieve plate is already positioned. Later the trays will be running in between.
- The metal dryer we have is with 6 layers. You can see the rails from here.
- All the surface is made out of stainless steel. The wall is using a double layer design, in between is heat resistant wool.
