Fuel Consumption Calculation of Silica Sand Dryer

Silica sand dryer also is well kown as rotary sand dryer, sand drying machine, quartz sand dryer, etc, and it is developed  and optimized on the base of traditional rotary drum dryer. It is ideal for drying minerial material such as silica sand, frac sand, garnet sand, river sand, artificial sand, slag, etc.

For the Silica Sand Dryer Machine, it is to use high temperature hot air to heat and dry the wet sand strongly, quickly and continuously, and usually it is the burner and hot air furnace to burn the fuel to creat high temperature air. As you see, in order to have good sand drying capacity, enough heat is one important factor. 

There is one wide fuel choice ranges for the silica sand dryer such as coal, waste wood, diesel, natural gas, biomass pellet, etc, and you can select the most economical fuel according to your local market, and then Sunco Machinery can supply the related burner and hot air furnace accordingly.

For the operation cost of Silica Sand Dryer Machine, the fuel consumption cost is one key factor for one successful sand drying system, in this article, Sunco Machinery engineers will explain the fuel consumption calculation methods.

For example, the input capacity of silica sand drying machine is 10 tons per hour, initial moisture content is 15%, output moisture content needed is 3%, fuel is diesel, then what will be the fuel diesel consumption per hour ?

Fuel Consumption Calculation of Silica Sand Dryer is as follows:

>>> Every hour needs to get rid of 1.3 tons water, and can produce about 8.7 tons dry sand.

>>> For drying silica sand, usually to dry and get rid of 1 ton water from wet sand, needs to consume about 600,000 Kcal heat.

>>> As a result, total heat needed is 1.3 tons water x 600,000 Kcal = 780,000 Kcal Heat .

>>> The calorific value of diesel is about 11,000 kcal per kg.

After calculation, diesel consumption per hour = 780,000 Kcal / 11,000 Kcal per kg = 71 kg .

In other words, to produce one ton dried silica sand, the diesel consumption = 71kg / 8.7 tons = about 8 kg diesel.

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