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Twelve days installation time – Compact system for continuous spray agglomeration of fine powders

Powder agglomeration compactly solved: Protein shakes, capsule coffee and sugar substitutes must be able to be precisely dosed and dissolve quickly; they must neither lump nor segregate. By means of continuous spray agglomeration in the fluid bed, these properties can be precisely adjusted. The new GF ModFlex compact system from plant manufacturer Glatt Ingenieurtechnik makes this economically feasible even for medium-sized productions. (article in German language)

Regulation and control systems for fluid bed spray agglomeration

Fully automated processes require reliable process data. These are determined with methods of statistical experimental design and the application of artificial neural networks. The presented case study has shown the potential as well as the general feasibility of a model-based control of a fluidized bed spray agglomeration process. In addition to the actual control task, the systematic approach allows a deeper insight into details of concrete industrial granulation processes. (article in German language)

A Fluid Bed Approach for Urea-based Fertilizers

Mike Waskow, Process Engineer, Process Technology Food, Feed & Fine Chemicals, Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH, Germany, explains how economical production of urea-based fertilizers can be achieved using fluidised bed technology. (Case study)

Enhancing product properties with fluid bed and spouted bed technologies

Fluidized bed and spouted bed are among the leading technologies when it comes to improving the physical properties of bulk solids, such as particle size distribution, bulk density, structure and morphology, in order to deliver beneficial application properties like enhanced dispersibility, solubility and flowability. The combination of processes such as drying, granulating and microencapsulating in a single step provides a cost-effective manufacturing solution.

Protected by a shell – Optimization of active ingredients by encapsulation or coating

Sensitive substances such as vitamins, flavors or probiotics must be well packaged to ensure that they reach their point of action safely. To ensure that they can also be released from their protective shell at the right time, fluid bed and spouted bed technologies with microencapsulation and hot melt coating offer two tailor-made finishing processes. (article in German language)

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INTERVIEW WITH VOLKER BUDZINSKI FROM GLATT INGENIEURTECHNIK

Glatt Ingenieurtechnik from Weimar is a globally active plant engineering company with its own process technology, the fluid bed process. Volker Budzinski is the sales manager responsible for international project development in the Process Technology Food, Feed & Fine Chemicals division. In an interview with the editors of Food Technologie, he answered some questions about fluid bed technology. (German article)

Hot-melt applications for the food and beverage industry – How to safely stabilize vitamins and probiotics

Sensitive substances such as probiotics, vitamins or sustained release dosage forms must be furnished with a functionally protective coating to ensure their safe transport through the intestinal tract. Furthermore, the surface treatment guarantees their release at a well-defined point in time. Hot-melt fluidized bed granulation provides a variety of possibilities for product design.

Spraying cleanly without a break – Hygienic design of fluid bed and spouted bed systems

Reliably operating spray nozzles and a flawless spray pattern are indispensable in fluid bed processes. A new spray nozzle safety mechanism from Glatt Ingenieurtechnik, specially developed for products relevant to explosion protection, enables the spray nozzle to be safely dismantled during operation. (article in German language)

Customised enzymes for optimal animal feed mixes

Technical processes improve the product properties: Feeds need enzymes that work optimally as well as being temperature-stable and storable. Two methods are particularly suitable for producing easy-to-process granules and pellets from sensitive, liquid enzyme solutions – the fluidised bed and the spouted bed methods. The plant manufacturer Glatt lngenieurtechnik is one of the world’s leading experts in this field and offers feed producers technology and plant expertise from a single source.

Optimising functional ingredients for enhanced nutritional values

Now that functional ingredients have established themselves as a dynamic market segment, the optimization of particle design has become increasingly important. The growing complexity of functional products is putting greater demands on established production processes. Fluidized bed and spouted bed processes offer manufacturers almost unlimited possibilities in terms of optimised particle design and the functionalisation of ingredients.