Patent ID: 8684514

Claim:
A media drying system for removing a moistening liquid from a moistened medium, the moistening liquid having a moistening-liquid boiling point, comprising: a liquid reservoir containing a heating liquid; a liquid-heating system for warming the heating liquid in the liquid reservoir to a temperature greater than the moistening-liquid boiling point; a rotatable liquid-blocking member having a liquid-blocking layer with an inner surface and an outer surface; a media-transport system for transporting the moistened medium along a transport path in which the moistened medium contacts or is entrained around the liquid-blocking member in a path zone so that the moistened medium is brought into contact with the outer surface of the liquid-blocking layer; and a porous material arranged to absorb heating liquid from the liquid reservoir and bring the absorbed heating liquid into contact with the inner surface of the liquid-blocking layer for at least a portion of the path zone, such that heat is transferred through the liquid-blocking layer from the absorbed warmed heating liquid to the moistening liquid, thereby vaporizing the moistening liquid and removing it from the moistening liquid.