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Spray drying

Ebbecke Verfahrenstechnik offers spray drying for pharmaceutical and food products

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Spray drying

The proven drying variant in the food and pharmaceutical industry

Production of powders from moist or liquid starting material

Spray drying is a drying process used by Ebbecke Verfahrenstechnik to produce pharmaceutical products in encapsulated, powdered or tableted form, for example. Spray drying is also used in the food industry to produce soluble beverage powders or granulates. As an outsourcing specialist, Ebbecke Verfahrenstechnik offers spray drying for industrial production. We are also happy to develop individual production processes with you – contact us!

Spray drying for uniform particle quality

Spray drying involves spraying droplets or atomizing a liquid in a temperature-controlled room. The particles dried in this way are collected at the end and can be processed further.

Before the liquid starting material is dried, it is first converted into droplets during spray drying. This is done using an atomizer, which distributes the atomized material evenly into the drying medium – usually tempered air in a spray tower. The droplet shape gives the liquid to be dried a larger surface area, which can speed up the drying process enormously.

  • The liquid starting material is dried very quickly by transferring it into the drop shape and thus increasing the surface area
  • The dried material has a relatively uniform particle size and can be easily filled or further processed
  • Temperature-sensitive material can be dried due to the physical effect of evaporative cooling
  • The dried particles have a large surface area and can in turn be quickly dissolved in liquids