Multiphase Dryers
- Type
- Technology Company
- Location
- Meerlo, Netherlands
- Industries
- New food processing techniques, Waste efficiency, Food safety & quality
- Domains
- Ingredients, Spent grain (brewers / distillers), Plant based primary products, Potatoes, Spices & herbs, Seaweed, Feed, Pet food
- Technologies
- Power-heating technology, Resource-recovery technology, Processing, Circular & resource technologies
About Multiphase Dryers
Multiphase Dryers is a Dutch industrial drying technology company focused on making drying economically viable for circular and biobased value chains. Its systems are designed for decentralized sites where wet by-products, residues, or other bulk materials need to be dried close to the source of production.
The company positions itself as an alternative to conventional high-temperature dryers by using low-grade residual heat and, where needed, heat pumps. This approach is intended to reduce energy use, lower carbon emissions, and preserve product quality through mild drying, while also improving the economics of small- to medium-scale drying applications.
Core Values
- Circularity: The company’s core mission is to help recover value from wet by-products and biobased residues so they can be reused instead of discarded or downgraded.
- Energy efficiency: Its technology is built around using low-grade residual heat and heat pumps to reduce energy demand compared with conventional drying.
- Mild processing: Lower drying temperatures are emphasized to help preserve nutrients and reduce product degradation.
- Practical decarbonization: The company frames net-zero drying as an economically attractive option, not only an environmental goal.
Unique Aspects
- Residual-heat-driven drying: Multiphase Dryers specifically targets low-grade residual heat, described as usable from roughly 50–70°C, which is often available on-site but normally wasted.
- Designed for decentralized circular flows: The systems are aimed at drying wet by-products close to where they are produced, helping prevent spoilage and reduce logistics costs.
- Patent-pending technology: The company states that its drying technology is patent pending, and that it can also work where no residual heat is available by using heat recovery via a standard heat pump.
- Broad application scope: Beyond food and feed by-products, the company has also developed a variant for industrial textile drying, showing a wider industrial use case.