I’ve worked with Calcium Chloride dryers in the past. How are GasDry deliquescent desiccants an improvement?
Unlike raw calcium chloride briquettes, such as Peladow DG, GasDry desiccants are designed specifically for use in gas dryer vessels. The tablets of all GasDry desiccant grades are uniform in shape and size. These qualities allow gas to evenly flow through a bed of GasDry tablets. The shape of raw calcium chloride briquettes is irregular. This causes bed channeling, reduced contact time, and uneven dehydration. The raw materials of GasDry desiccants are pressed into tablets under intense pressure, resulting in a dense final product. This ensures that GasDry desiccants exhibit little to no dusting within the dryer vessel. Calcium chloride briquettes are loosely formed and typically brittle. Often a barrel of raw calcium chloride is more than 15% dust by weight. Calcium chloride should not be used as a drying medium in applications where gas temperatures exceed 80F. Calcium chloride briquettes or tablets begin to fuse at this temperature. Peladow DG, with its high calcium chloride conten
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