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Superheated-steam drying loop with MVR heat recovery

Superheated steam dryingVapor recompressionEnergy integrationSolids
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A wet cake is dried in a superheated-steam dryer (steam as the drying medium instead of hot air), and the evaporated moisture — pure steam — is recovered by mechanical vapor recompression (MVR) plus a trim superheater into high-grade superheated steam that reheats the recirculating drying medium. Superheated-steam drying is the energy-efficient route for biofuel and food solids (distillers' grains, beet pulp, lignite): because the drying atmosphere is steam, the evaporated water leaves as more steam whose latent heat is recompressed and reused, instead of being lost in a humid exhaust. Honesty note (same posture as bioethanol-mvr-stillage): the dryer is FlowSim's screening solid-in / vapor-out convective model (computes its own latent+sensible duty; the dried-solid identity is a generic surrogate, here 'ethanol' crystals as in the solids train), and the steam recirculation is modeled OPEN — the recompressed+superheated steam is reported as the recovered drying medium rather than piped back into the bed as a closed material recycle (the dryer op has no steam inlet to close the loop into). The MVR recompression + trim superheat of the evaporated steam — the defining SSD efficiency win — is modeled with the real compressor and heater ops.

The flowsheet

The solved topology — every unit op's real duty, conversion, or split, read straight off a genuine converged solve.

Solids
Water
solid
liquor
cake
filt
Dewater
wet
dry
vap
SSD
MVR
Superheat
Drysolid
Filtrate
Recirc Steam

The stream table

Every stream's flow, temperature, pressure, and composition — real converged numbers, not placeholders.

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