The Stronga Hooklift Drying Containers are the latest additions to the Stronga range of hooklift containers. Part of our commitment to providing our customers with cost effective and efficient material transport and handling solutions.

With inclement weather causing issues with grain quality during the harvest, having an efficient method of transporting and drying grain is beneficial to farms of all sizes. The drying containers require lower capital investment than conventional drying system, suitable for small and large operations.

Combined Drying and Transport

Stronga drying containers are perfect for transporting grain and wood chips as well as being an effective drying system. The multi-purpose ability of these drying containers provides operators with an efficient bulk material transport and drying system when combined with a HookLoada hook lift trailer.

Flexible and Expandable

As a modular container based drying system allows you to grow your operation meaning a low initial investment, with the potential to expand the setup in the future easily and cost effectively.

Integration with conventional dryers or biomass heating systems is simple, specify the size of your output duct and we will optimise the containers input duct.

Simple and Efficient Drying

The wide air input duct has been designed to maximise the airflow throughout the container for optimum drying, without any adverse effects to the pressure of the air travelling through.

In container drying allows efficient batch control, particularly useful when the material is of different levels of moisture content. Some batches may require more heat for drying than others, allowing you to maintain efficiency by dealing with batches individually.

Optional easy access sample testing hatches are available for those drying wood chip, for a convenient method of recording moisture levels.

Stronga By Design

The intelligent design and strong construction of our containers means low maintenance and a very low cost of ownership. Removing the perforated floor is done by simply removing three bolts and sliding out the seven floor plates, allowing for easy cleaning and maintenance.

Stronga Drying Containers are available with easy-deploy rollover sheets or bulker sheets to keep materials dry. The rollover sheets are easily opened and closed from the ground, offering better safety.

For more information on the Stronga Drying Containers please contact us on 01992 519000 or info@stronga.co.uk. We have an in depth understanding of client requirements to ensure an efficient match.

Stronga have experience in designing all-inclusive solutions for material drying in hooklift container modules. Stronga have the confidence to provide specialist advice, reliable support and efficient drying solutions for customers who have wet products to dry like wood chip, digestate, manure and more. Discover how you could significantly increase your financial income with Stronga.

Traditional seasoning concept

Traditional seasoning is a natural method of air drying in piled conical heaps. This drying concept is mainly applicable to timber and it considered as being inefficient, taking 2 years or more to suitably reduce moisture content to the required level. Inefficiency is an issue for many businesses who often require an immediately saleable product; particularly those who are looking to make use of Renewable Heat Incentives (RHI) offered by governments, today.

Stronga containerised drying concept

Stronga manufacture and design two types of drying container solutions which work alongside our HookLoada trailer for the transport, delivery and storage of wet materials like woodchip, digestate, grain and poultry manure:

1. Horizontal airflow type (HAF containers).
2. Vertical ‘bottom up’ airflow type .

Containerised drying allows customers to blow hot air through wet materials to suitably reduce moisture content for fuel or fertiliser, depending on the material. Where traditional seasoning can take 2+ years, container drying can turn wet product into a saleable fuel or fertiliser in as little as 1-3 days. Imagine the dry output potential with a multiple container drying system.

All-inclusive drying solutions

To maximise efficiency and performance, the Stronga technical team work with the customer to specify an inclusive drying system. The inclusive drying system is entirely collated and designed by Stronga:

• Heatex unit.
• Boiler (Stronga work with preferred boiler suppliers).
• Coil/heater exchanger design.
• Fan type.
• Plenum design.
• Air temperatures, air pressure and relative humidity.

How do the drying methods compare?

HookLoada shuttling process

The Stronga HookLoada works alongside our container drying stations in what is an efficient, flexible and high performance drying system. HookLoada and drying containers operate in the following sequence for woodchips:

1. Collect wet woodchips from the timber source

2. Deliver wet woodchips to the drying station

3. Dry woodchips at the drying station

Discover the woodchip energy harvest video below to see how the HookLoada fits into the drying process.

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If you are interested in Stronga drying solutions, click here to discover the high performance Stronga FlowDrya which delivers even better drying efficiency. Stronga are your trusted transport advisers, contact our friendly team for professional support.

Stronga are leading advisers, designers and manufacturers of high performance dryers which match the clients’ range of materials and energy availability. With years experience, FlowDrya has developed a reputation for quality, reliability and versatility.

Our designs maximise system and thermal drying efficiencies to transform saturated products into saleable food, fuel or fertiliser. Join the green revolution with Stronga.

Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)

Stronga FlowDrya is fully compatible for use with UK’s Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme. Our team support clients with the RHI application by connecting them with our network of technical advisers. We can provide clients with accurate technical data, financial projects and thermal calculations.

Stronga FlowDrya allows clients to efficiently convert  residual heat into added value, making a contribution to environmental sustainability while enjoying the financial incentives offered by the UK government. Stronga recommend that the clients below consider FlowDrya to add value while optimising waste heat utilisation.

• Anaerobic Digestion (AD) or Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plants who have spare residual heat.
• Gasification CHP plants requiring consistently quality dried bio fuel.
• Sawmills with saturated wood chip for conversion into dry renewable bio fuel.
• Waste companies who can convert waste streams to valuable renewable fuel supplies.
• Estates with available forestry or timber to be chipped, dried and sold as biomass boiler fuel.
• Bio fuel suppliers growing their business by supplying dry chip to the biomass market.
• Clients with under-utilised biomass boilers who can use the spare capacity to create dry bio fuel.
• Clients with waste wood who can increase their financial income working as a dry wood chip fuel supplier.

Whole system drying solutions

Our approach of matching equipment to the needs of the client delivers the most efficient whole system drying solution. There are 2 primary components of the Stronga drying system:

1. Heatex – Air control module
2. FlowDrya – All-in-one dryer

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Heatex air control module

A vital component of Stronga drying solutions is the design of the Heatex air control module. While external weather can affect drying performance, it is important to understand that it is the air quality that does the drying in the end.

Heatex air control modules are designed to optimise drying performance via optimal air temperature, airflow and air pressure from the energy available. Easy-to-operate Heatex modules deliver instant visual control over the drying parameters via an intelligent Programmable Logic Controller (PLC).

All-in-one FlowDrya

Stronga FlowDrya is designed for optimum efficiency and performance, offering great value in the form of lowest cost per tonne dried. The all-in-one system ensures excellent drying versatility, extending the client’s ability to dry a range of materials.

FlowDrya positively moves wet materials from a hopper, along a moving drying bed, and over a flow of temperature controlled which is fed from the Heatex air control module. FlowDrya drying is simple, reliable and powerfully effective.

Versatile drying performance

Stronga FlowDrya has unlimited drying possibilities, leading to long-term financial profitability and productivity. FlowDrya users are now drying a whole range of materials.

Wood chip, wood shavings, sawdust, bark, cereals, fruits, nuts, compost, poultry manure, separated and raw digestate, RDF and SRF waste, sewage sludge, organic fraction waste and much, much more.

Efficiency in full flow

1. High quality drying airflow is controlled by the Heatex air control module.
2. Warm Heatex air flows into the FlowDrya sub-floor plenum and fluxes in every direction, interacting with heavy fines and the steel infrastructure. Hot steel transfer thermal energy directly into materials to supplement the drying process.
3. Warm air rises through the upper moving bed to diffuse through materials and induce evaporative drying.
4. Exiting exhaust airflow is dissipated into the atmosphere or can be further processed in auxiliary dust or bio-filter modules.

PulseWave mixing motion

Highly efficient PulseWave thoroughly mixes materials on the drying bed. PulseWave ensures that every part of the material interacts with the hot bed metal during the flow and receives an equal airflow, leading to uniformity of product dryness.

Forward-stroke. Materials are moved forwards by the pushing blade face, causing a force low to the bed. The force is weaker above the blade because the face is less influential, causing materials at the wave’s crest to lag and tumble onto the bed behind.

Back-stroke. Materials are lifted over the tilted axis of the blade to form another wave. As the crest height grows the wave becomes less stable, causing materials to tumble forwards and backwards.

Success, only by controlling

Stronga FlowDrya comes fitted with a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and smart DryStation touchscreen interface for maximal command power, optimum efficiency and reliability, all the time. PLC systems have durable infrastructures designed to withstand extreme vibrations, temperatures and humidity.

On the 7″ read-at-a-glance DryStation touchscreen, the FlowDrya operator has can instantly access the dryer controls, safety features and visual parameters.

Continuous flow drying process

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If you are interested in this investment, contact our product drying advisers for professional support. Stronga require certain information to allow us to advise clients on establishing thermally efficient drying solutions. Click the button below to contact the Stronga technical team.

Watch the FlowDrya woodchip drying video >

Stronga are leading advisers, designers and manufacturers of high performance dryers which match the clients’ range of materials and energy availability. Stronga FlowDrya and Heatex have recently undergone significant upgrades, resulting in designs which deliver enhanced energy efficiency, long life reliability and outstanding drying versatility.

FlowDrya woodchip drying video

Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) compliant

Stronga drying solutions are fully compatible for use with UK’s RHI scheme. Following the positive news regarding RHI, we advise that the following clients consider Stronga drying solutions to add value while optimising waste heat utilisation:

• Anaerobic Digestion (AD) or Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plants with spare residual heat.
• Gasification CHP plants requiring consistently quality dried bio fuel.
• Sawmills with wet woodchip for conversion into dry renewable bio fuel.
• Estates with forestry or timber to be chipped, dried and sold as biomass boiler fuel.
• Bio fuel suppliers growing their business by supplying dry woodchip to the biomass market.
• Clients with under-utilised biomass boilers who can use the spare capacity to create dry bio fuel.

Refined and re-engineering solutions

Stronga strive for continuous improvement in our quest to supply only reliable, long life and high performance equipment. FlowDrya and Heatex have recently been re-engineered and enhanced to deliver even better drying efficiency and versatility.

Heatex is now housed within a convenient, modular and portable container. The upgrade means Heatex is now sub-divided into 3 contained chambers – a control room, a fan and deep core cold chamber, and an insulated warm air end chamber.

Coupling static and portable dryers

Heatex can be modified with drying container ports and/or a FlowDrya port to suit requirements (see inset photo below). With the unique ability to couple a static plant (FlowDrya) with a portable solution (HAF drying containers and HookLoada), users can now enjoy a wide range of benefits such as drying bulk capacities at any one time and simultaneously drying a wide range of materials.

Stronga Drying Stations are a 3 part system consisting of Heatex, HAF drying containers and HookLoada. Using HookLoada, customers can collect wet materials at the source, bring them back to Heatex to be dried, and then deliver the dry output to the end user.

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Efficient environmentally friendly design

Every Stronga product is designed to comply with our core principle of only building environmentally friendly and sustainable designs. Stronga FlowDrya is a low energy, low temperature dryer designed for optimum energy efficiency.

The universal drying system positively moves wet materials from a hopper, along a moving drying bed, and over a flow of temperature controlled which is fed from Heatex. The whole drying system is simple, reliable and powerfully effective.

Endless innovation. Unlimited versatility

Stronga FlowDrya and Heatex can dry a wide range of materials, leading to long-term financial profitability and productivity. Customers right now are drying woodchip, wood shavings, bark, separated and raw digestate, cereals, fruits, compost, poultry manure, SRF, organic fraction waste and much more.

Market-leading flared hopper capacity

As part of the FlowDrya upgrade, Stronga extended to hopper flare to significantly enlarge the wet material holding capacity. Now with a standard capacity of 30m³, the FlowDrya hopper can now hold at least 13m³ more than similar machines in the market at any one time. That means you load wet materials into the flared hopper far less frequently.

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