Asphalt Burners
HADES Asphalt Burners: Aggregate Drying Burner Equipment backed by over a Century of Innovation
The Detroit® HADES Burner is Detroit Stoker Company's equipment solution for hot aggregate drying, backed by more than 125 years of combustion experience and made by professionals who specialize in solid fuel burning stokers.

Performance and Durability that You Can Rely On
Detroit’s HADES Asphalt Burners are the high-performance solution for burner systems and aggregate drying. Our durable, compact design has several features to offer:
- Compact Design for a Smaller Footprint: Detroit’s HADES Burners are the smallest sealed-in burners on the market.
- Many Ways to Save on Operational Costs: The HADES Burners have the lowest HP fan motors possible for improved energy efficiency without sacrificing performance, and are designed with VFD operation that fits your particular needs.
- Primary Flame Stabilization: The HADES Burner supports a wide turndown range and rapid production rate changes for stable operation.
- Secondary Flame Shaping: Detroit Stoker’s innovative design optimizes the flame pattern to fit the combustion zone, maximizing dryer efficiency and minimizing flight wear and the risk of overheating.
- Robust Igniter Design: Our design optimizes ignition for long-term reliability.
- Safer and More Efficient Burning: Detroit’s burners exhibit low NOx and CO levels, improving both environmental impact and user safety.
- Reducing Waste: HADES Asphalt Burners feature a compressed air atomizer design that helps with reducing waste by optimizing heavy oil atomization.
- Lower Cost of Ownership: HADES Burners are easy to install and maintain, requiring very little maintenance compared to other burners on the market.
- Fuel Efficient Performance: Our asphalt burners are designed for linkage-less combustion control to optimize fuel consumption.
- Skid-Mounted Fuel Manifolds: These fuel manifolds are skid-mounted for simpler start up and operation of the HADES Burner.
- Safer Start-Up with Pre-Engineered Panel: All HADES Burners come with a pre-engineered and prepackaged burner control panel to ensure safe start-up and operation.

Additional Benefits of Detroit Stoker’s HADES Asphalt Burners
- Aggregate Dryer Fuel Options: Natural Gas, No. 2 Oil, Waste/Heavy Oil, Liquid Propane
- Compressed Air Atomization for Fuel Oils
- State of the Art Detroit® Combustion Control Panel for Optimum Air/Fuel Ratio Control
- Consult DSC for ‘Long Nose’ Options
- Backed by DSC Service and Engineering Team with 125 Years of Combustion Experience
See How the Detroit® HADES Burner has helped our customers!
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Get In Touch!
Contact the Detroit Stoker Company Burner Group to evaluate your asphalt and aggregate dryer needs and the benefits our asphalt burners have to offer.
For more information on the Detroit® HADES Burner, feel free to request a brochure from the Literature page of our website.