• Fiberglass package drying times are reduced from 30 hours to 2 hours. Binder migration, package deformation and discoloration are reduced and the process is easily automated.

• Fiberglass mats are dried with higher speeds and more consistent quality product.

• Foam products are dried with cycle times reduced from 4 hours to 1 hour. Many foams are dried with a hybrid system of convection and RF.

• Ceramic fiberboard and shapes are dried faster with reduced binder migration with combined convection and RF.

• Ceramic powders and filter cakes are dried faster and at lower temperatures, improving overall purity and quality.

• Ceramic honeycomb extrusions and metallized coatings are dried much more quickly and uniformly.

• Dyed yarn packages drying time is reduced and the drying provides consistent color throughout.

• Baked goods are dried in a conveyor parallel plate system after baking to remove moisture.

• Pultrusion lines can increase speeds up to ten times with RF preheaters, especially for large diameter solid shapes.

• Veneer can be redried to turn scrap and low grade product into higher grade product with uniform moisture content.

• Paper and polymer webs use combined RF drying with flotation dryers or cylinder dryers for more efficient drying. RF dryers placed in a cylinder drying line have increased speed by over 10% with only 3% increase in RF energy usage. The use of RF to drive moisture to the surface makes the follow-on cylinders efficient.

• Coatings are dried quickly with RF energy on temperature sensitive films without overheating the film. The coating absorbs the RF but the polymer film absorbs very little RF energy and thus heats very little.

• Non-woven fibers with a resin binder are dried quickly and evenly. Webs can be supported on a conveyor or airborne through the applicator.

• Fiberglass strands coated with latex are dried very rapidly – in 4 feet before the strand contacts a pulley or roll. More importantly, the latex forms a near perfect bond between the many filaments constituting the strand.

• Moisture profiling is a very important application since the amount of energy absorbed from the field is a function of the moisture present, wet spots or streaks absorb more energy. This result is a more uniform moisture profile of the web leaving the dielectric.