dry curing

Google "condensing dryer"

Cheers...

So, you are designing an oven to cure a water based compound and you plan to use natural gas heating?

The main problem I can see with this is that using gas heating is going to give a high humidity inside the oven, which is what you are experiencing...

Is it not possible to use electric heating? then the heat would be drier and you may not need to dehumidify the oven air.

John.

If it helps some clothes dryers are of a condensing type in that they need a drain instead of the more common vent to exhaust air. I think this type procedure would provide you cost effectiveness and these clothes dryers do use natural gas for fuel. Could be you can check replacement parts list and appropriate the necessary equipment for your operations.

Actually I want to connect a dehumidifier to the oven so that all water vapours would

be condensed out from the moist hot air and the dry hot air would be recylced

into the oven .In this way the drying/curing of the compound in the oven

can be carried out at lower temperatures in short time .

Another option may be to use dessicant chemical to absorb the moisture rapidly.

What do you think if I would like to use "silica gel beads" / "plaster of paris",

"anhydrous calcium chloride" which may be recylced by heating .

Ashraf