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The ceramic industry demands enormous amounts of energy for the drying processes of various material, including clay, glass, brick, tiles and fixtures. The best way to improve the efficiency of ceramic manufacturing is to connect a gas turbine to the spray dryer, providing heat along with electrical power for the facility.
Efficiency and Cost Savings for your Plant
Solar uses gas turbine-based cogeneration, better known as Combined Heat and Power (CHP). Solar’s cogeneration ceramic application process uses gas turbine exhaust air in the ceramic spray dryer by bringing high quantity heat into the drying process. A gas turbine connected to a spray dryer increases the process efficiency from 27-32% to 75-90% and saves on electrical and fuel costs in the ceramic industry. Cogeneration in ceramic application provides simultaneous and independent generation of power and heat.
Years of Experience Powering Your Ceramic Needs
Solar has more than 100 units connected to spray dryers in several ceramic manufacturing sites. Solar’s experience in direct drying raw materials and composites, and the clay atomization process, has contributed to ceramic industry cost savings, emissions reduction and energy consumption.
Cogeneration Calculator
Use this cogeneration & Combined Heat and Power (CHP) calculator to quickly estimate your company's annual energy savings, along with the carbon emissions you will eliminate with our turbines.
Discover how one of the most modern ceramics companies in Brazil used Solar’s Centaur 50 Gas Turbine associated with its clay atomization process to complement their other energy sources and reduce costs.
Learn how Solar Turbines Taurus 60 helps provide power and lower CO2 emissions for the Gold Art Ceramic plant in Modina, Italy, while still providing additional energy back to the local electric utility grid.
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