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4 x SG 50
Kilns
Solar
Dryers Australia is the leading manufacturer of solar/gas kilns
in Australia and probably the world.
The company originated as Rose Gum Timbers,
a producer of hardwood furniture timber, using initially pure solar
kilns for the drying process. As the timber business grew we kept
developing the kilns and eventually sold some twenty odd solar heated
container kilns in the late nineties.
Solar
Dryers Australia is now an independent company, but still conducts
all its research and manufacture in conjunction with Rose
Gum Timbers at their east coast drying operation in Bellingen.
The opportunity
to continually experiment and develop drying systems in the environment
of a working timberyard has been invaluable in our kiln design.
Working so closely with a company requiring high quality, efficient
drying gives us a unique insight into the needs of other producers.
Our standard kiln sizes are 10m3,
30m3
, 50m3
and 75m3
but we also custom design kilns for specific requirements, and build
kilns in multiple cells.
All of these kilns are heated by our hot water heat exchanger system
which is able to utilize hot water from a variety of sources including
Gas, Solar, Waste Wood Boilers etc.
Our simplest kilns are the gas- fired models. These kilns are fitted
with an external LP gas unit, heating water in a pumped circuit
with a heat exchanger inside the kiln.
Indirect gas firing means no combustion gases in the chamber, no
need for constant re-humidification and no possibility of fire.
However our most popular form of kiln is the Solar/Gas system. This
new SG range of kilns is the result of a collaboration with
hot water system manufacturer Rheem-Solahart.
For some two years now we have been making improvements of efficiency
in a number of areas, the principal one being the use of hot water
as a solar collection medium.
This involved specialized work on collector panels, flow rates and
heat exchanger design so as to best capture the relatively low levels
of solar radiation available in southern winter climates.
SG 50 Solar/Gas
Kiln
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