Patent ID: 6880772
Filing Date: 2005-04-19
Classification: B02C,C08B,F26B

Abstract:
1. A process of both milling and drying a solvent-moist material comprising: (a) providing a mill-dryer apparatus comprising, (b) introducing said solvent-moist material into said mill; (c) circulating a vapor stream throughout said mill-dryer circuit; (d) heating said vapor stream by means of passage through said heat-exchanger; (e) forwarding milled particulate material from said mill to said particulate separating apparatus by means of said vapor stream and said mill-separator conduit; (f) separating said particulate material from said vapor stream in said particulate separating apparatus; (g) forwarding said vapor stream from said particulate separating apparatus through said separator-heat exchanger conduit; and (h) controlling the temperature of said vapor stream by optionally forwarding at least some of said vapor stream through said bypass line.