FLUX SMART DRYERS

WHY USE RF FOR THE DRYING OF INK?

Currently, at the state-of-art of digital printers, the printing equipment are designed for high-speed printing capacity where the potential directly bonded and limited only by the efficiency of the dryers.

The result is an inefficient pair that match an high-end technological and expensive printing machinewith an un-efficient, slow and obsolete dryer.

HOW DOES THE TECHNOLOGY WORKS?

RADIO FREQUENCY technology is based on high frequency electromagnetic fields, to heat the water within the ink. When exposed to high frequency waves, water molecules undergo vibration and rotation at a rate of million times per second, generating heat from the core and raising the water temperature to the point of evaporation.

The heat transfer process is intrinsic and immediate throughout the entire product mass, making the entire drying process intimate and significantly faster than conventional methods.

ADVANTAGES

Low consumption and 100% Fully electric technology

The overall efficiency of the process is 2 to 3 times higher that conventional Infrared/Hot air/Gas technology. With an evaporation rate of 1,5Lt/hour of water for every Kw of RF power FLUX technology is the most efficient and money-saving method for the drying of ink.

No changes in colors and low thermal stress

The water extraction process involves a very mild and insignificant thermal transfer to the product and external environment, the transfer of the energy is provided with surgical precision to the water molecules only.

No emissions or polluting products

The drying of water based ink is processed instantly with RF, with negligible thermal losses and without any preparation or pre-heating time.

High thermal efficiency, low environmental heating and elimination of preparation time

The technology is 100% electric and Carbon Free, does not require any filtering systems, environmental control nor use of disposable sources of power

WHY THE CONVENTIONAL METHODS ARE NOT EFFICIENT AS RF?

Currently different technologies are used for the drying of Ink but all of them even if applied efficiently have to face different handicaps

Forced HOT AIR dryers.

They are the most common equipment used for the drying of ink on digital printing applications.

The heating involve the use of high rate of electric energy for the generation of power through electric resistors or use of gas burners. Environmental impact is the highest with thermal dispersion, slow and uneven drying that make the equipment bulky and expensive to run.

INFRARED RAYS and ULTRAVIOLET RAYS dryers.

IR and UV waves are not able to drying efficiently through the whole mass of the ink, the drying is only processed efficiently on surface of the product.

It involve an higher thermal dispersion through the environment and thermal stress to the ink, the drying is non even since the absorption of the radiation is affected by the colors of the ink in the visible spectrum

Case study about energetic consumption

Below we report some data for comparing the consumption on a operative production line with a 72-head printer, which includes a traditional dual-module hybrid gas/electric dryer from a common brand, whose declared consumption we compare to our equivalent in capacity: TIFFANY 20

The savings thus amount to over 30,000 Euros/year in the South European market, which is one of the most economical in the European zone. Additionally, there is a saving in terms of environmental climate control as the high-frequency wave process has virtually no thermal dispersion into the environment.

The same comparison was made in Italy, where the consumption of two operating plants with 16-head printers of equivalent capacity was analyzed, comparing conventional hot air dryer with a single electric module to our equivalent TIFFANY 10 currently in use.

In this study, we have confirmed a saving of 14,000 Euros/year per unit, which is a cost reduction of about 60% on the electric bill compared to the traditional technology currently in use.