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Product safety for granulation and coating – Hygienic design for fluid bed and spouted bed systems

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Fluid bed and spouted bed systems of various designs and sizes are used for granulation, agglomeration, coating and heat transfer processes in many branches of industry. Product safety is the top priority when establishing such processes. To ensure compliance with the relevant hygiene conditions, special planning and design principles are taken into account in the plant concept. These include steel construction, insulation, operating panels and wall penetrations. (German article)

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Fluid Bed Coating – Changing Properties of Solids as Desired

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Coating of particles is a critical process step for many manufacturing processes. After all, coating essentially determines the product quality. The appropriate process must be found to determine the properties of as needed for the application. The following article describes, what need to be considered when developing particles. (German article)

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Cleanly separated – filters in fluid bed systems, an overview

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For the production of granulates from solid and/or liquid raw materials and the coating of particles, fluid bed plants offer many possibilities for influencing the granulate properties. The process chamber of fluid bed systems must be permeable to the process gas at the bottom and at the top. It is usually bounded at the bottom by an inflow floor and at the top by a filter. The filter is thus of decisive importance for the process. (German article)

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International competence in planning – Glatt Ingenieurtechnik plans and builds complex plant lines and production facilities

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In 1991 Glatt Ingenieurtechnik was founded in Weimar as a subsidiary of Glatt GmbH Process Technology. For 20 years the plant engineering company from Thuringia has been a competent partner for process, plant and turnkey factory planning employing innovative technologies. Dr. Michael Reubold has interviewed Volker Saalfeld, manager of the Engineering Division about the development of the division and its future plans. (article in German language)

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Full Flexibility with Spouted-Bed – Glatt’s ProCell continuous spouted-bed equipment makes high-quality granulates and pellets

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At the end of 2009, one of the world’s largest spouted bed systems for granulation started at the Dresden-based contract manufacturer IPC. A ProCell 250 from Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH enables a so far unreached flexibility for agglomeration and spray granulation processes. Liquid and/or solid raw materials can be processed to granulates and pellets or existing particles can be coated. Batch or continuous operation is possible.

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Encapsulating volatile substances – Product optimization with artificial neural networks

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Food and feed products have to be developed with a focus on high yields of active ingredients and low formulation costs at the same time. As a typical industrial application, the encapsulation of volatile substances, e.g. flavors or PUFAs (polyunsaturated fatty acids), into dense and free-flowing granules is explained in this paper. This process improves storage stability, protects the products from oxygen and can be carried out with a continuously operating spouted bed apparatus.

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