A VERTICAL DRYER SILO

A vertical hot air dryer silo or dry air dryer silo (29) has a circumferential silo wall (11a,11b,11), that delimits a drying chamber (10), is used in a vertical hot air drying apparatus (30) and in a method of of drying pellets, granules, powder and/or particles. The vertical hot air dryer silo or dry air dryer silo (29) comprises an upper silo part (4), a lower conical silo part (5) in extension of the upper silo part (4), at least one loading inlet (8) for pellets to be dried, which at least one loading inlet (8) is provided at the top of the upper silo part (4), at least one discharge outlet (6) for dried pellets is provided at the bottom of the lower conical silo part (5), and at least one air inlet (30a,30b) that is adapted for supplying heated air, dry hot air and/or dry air to the drying chamber (10) is provided in the lower conical silo part (5). A baffle member (34) is suspended in the lower conical silo part (5) above the at least one discharge outlet (6) to adjust the flow path of the falling moist pellets.