Abstract: A perforated plate of a granulating device for thermoplastic plastic material, having nozzle openings, and wherein at least one side of the perforated plate has a functional layer in at least one region. The functional layer is thermally insulating as compared to the base material of the perforated plate, and is more abrasion-resistant than the base material of the perforated plate, and consists of an enamel coating.

Abstract: An apparatus for drying pellets having a housing and a device for impressing motion. The device impresses directions of motion on the pellets and on a process fluid that differ locally from one another, so that the process fluid in which the pellets are originally located can be separated. The pellets by means of passage from a screen front to a screen rear in a dewatering region with at least one dewatering screen having dewatering screen openings that are smaller in size than the pellets. A classifying region with at least one classifying screen with classifying screen openings that are of such a size that the pellets of a desired size pass from a screen front through these classifying screen openings to a screen rear, wherein the classifying screen is arranged such that the pellets with the direction of motion impressed upon them pass through the classifying screen openings.