It's rather a question of the properties of your feed stream and the costs (dry matter content?)! For wet solid streams (main phase solid) you may use a Rotary dryer. But there are a lot of other types which may be advantageous in this case!
For slurry material stream, you may apply a spray dryer - This may be a good solution for high-grade products - like applications in food or pharmaceutical industry...A spray dryer has nozzles or a rotating wheel. Nozzles maybe get blocked, a rotating wheel may cause mechanical problems.
These types of dryers have different feed characteristics. In rotary dryer the feed is moist solids, in spray dryer the feed is in liquid phase. In any of these dryers you can prevent the calcination controlling the dry gas input temperature and the feed/gas ratio.