Dryer for a compressed gas supplied, whereby this dryer is provided with a vessel with a drying zone and a regeneration zone therein; an inlet for the regeneration zone that is also an inlet for the supply of gas to be dried and an outlet for the regeneration zone; an inlet for the drying zone and an outlet for the drying zone that is also the outlet of the dryer from where dried compressed gas can be tapped off for a downstream consumer network; a rotatable drum in the vessel with a regenerable drying agent therein; drive means for rotating the aforementioned drum such that the drying agent is moved successively through the drying zone and the regeneration zone; a connecting pipe that connects the aforementioned outlet of the regeneration zone to the aforementioned inlet of the drying zone; a cooler and a condensate separator incorporated in the connecting pipe; at least one intermediate zone that, viewed in the direction of rotation of the drum, is situated between the regeneration zone and the drying zone and which is provided with a separate inlet and an outlet that is shared with or connected to the outlet of the regeneration zone; a tap-off pipe that branches off from the outlet of the drying zone and connects to the aforementioned separate inlet of the intermediate zone; means for effectuating an intermediate flow from the drying zone, through the tap-off pipe, to the intermediate zone, whereby the dryer is configured such that the entire flow of gas to be dried supplied to the dryer is first guided through the regeneration zone before flowing through the drying zone, characterised in that the aforementioned means are only formed by one or more blowers in the aforementioned tap-off pipe, in that the dryer is provided with a control system and one or more sensors, whereby an aforementioned blower is provided with a controllable drive, said controllable drive being connected to said control system to which said one or more sensors are connected to determine the pressure difference between the outlet of the drying zone, on the one hand, and the inlet of the regeneration zone, on the other hand, and whereby the aforementioned control system is provided with an algorithm that changes the speed of the aforementioned drive on the basis of the aforementioned pressure difference, and in that the dryer is constructed with one or more of the following intermediate zones: - an intermediate cooling zone at the end (8") of the regeneration zone with an intermediate gas flow that is tapped off from the outlet of the drying zone and is guided by means of an aforementioned blower, without heating, to the inlet of the intermediate cooling zone concerned; - an intermediate regeneration zone at the end (8") of the regeneration zone with an intermediate gas flow that is tapped off from the outlet of the drying zone and is guided by means of an aforementioned blower, after having been heated, to the inlet of the intermediate regeneration zone concerned; - an intermediate cooling zone at the start of the regeneration zone with an intermediate gas flow that is tapped off from the outlet of the drying zone and is guided by means of an aforementioned blower, without heating, to the inlet of the intermediate cooling zone concerned; - an intermediate regeneration zone at the start of the regeneration zone with an intermediate gas flow that is tapped off from the outlet of the drying zone and is guided by means of an aforementioned blower, after having been heated, to the inlet of the intermediate regeneration zone concerned. - an intermediate cooling zone at the end (8") of the regeneration zone with an intermediate gas flow that is tapped off from the outlet of the drying zone and is guided by means of an aforementioned blower, without heating, to the inlet of the intermediate cooling zone concerned; - an intermediate regeneration zone at the end (8") of the regeneration zone with an intermediate gas flow that is tapped off from the outlet of the drying zone and is guided by means of an aforementioned blower, after having been heated, to the inlet of the intermediate regeneration zone concerned; - an intermediate cooling zone at the start of the regeneration zone with an intermediate gas flow that is tapped off from the outlet of the drying zone and is guided by means of an aforementioned blower, without heating, to the inlet of the intermediate cooling zone concerned; - an intermediate regeneration zone at the start of the regeneration zone with an intermediate gas flow that is tapped off from the outlet of the drying zone and is guided by means of an aforementioned blower, after having been heated, to the inlet of the intermediate regeneration zone concerned.