Pilot Plants at the Glatt Technology Center Weimar

Pilot scale for spray pyrolysis, calcination, drying, granulation, microencapsulation, coating, and …

Modular fluid bed/spouted bed pilot plant ProCell® PilotSystem at the Glatt Technology Center in Weimar, Germany

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For a meaningful and safe transfer from laboratory to production scale, small-scale tests on high-performance pilot plants are required. For this purpose, several application-specific configurable pilot plants of different designs are available.

Different process inserts, filter and spray systems, various cleaning concepts and also the extension by further process steps such as screening, extruding, pelletizing or tablet pressing give your flexibility maximum scope. The focus is on continuous processes. Batch processes are also offered if required.

Glatt AGT® PilotSystem

Our modular system with maximum process flexibility in process development, process optimization and scale-up for continuous and batch fluid bed processes allows a wide range of process options.

Process inserts: AGT 12, Vario 25

Modular fluid bed/spouted bed pilot plant AGT® PilotSystem at the Glatt Technology Center in Weimar, Germany

  • fresh air/exhaust air operation
  • sieve milling loop
  • explosion suppression system
  • top spray or bottom spray
  • melt spray system
  • continuous solids discharge
  • volumetric continuous product discharge
  • processing of all St-1 / St-2 dusts
  • internal bag filter
  • external cyclone + dust recirculation
  • external bag filter
  • data storage
  • Siemens S7 control
  • visualization: Win CC

Glatt ProCell® PilotSystem

For continuous processes based on fluid bed and spouted bed technology with various process options, our modular plant system is available to you with great process flexibility. The multistage apparatus concept in rectangular design allows numerous interconnection options for targeted influence on residence time behavior or for combining different process steps in process development, process optimization and scale-up.

Process inserts: ProCell® 25, GF 25

Changing the process insert of the modular fluid bed/spouted bed pilot plant ProCell® PilotSystem at the Glatt Technology Center in Weimar, Germany

  • fresh air/exhaust air operation
  • closed loop operation: air or nitrogen
  • solvent recovery
  • screen milling loop
  • WIP version
  • explosion suppression system
  • top spray or bottom spray
  • zone separation with different weir configurations
  • melt spray system
  • supply air dehumidification
  • continuous solids discharge
  • continuous volumetric product discharge
  • internal cartridge, plate or bag filter
  • external cyclone + dust recirculation
  • external cartridge filter
  • decipe control
  • data storage
  • Siemens S7 control
  • visualization: Glatt MegaView

Glatt ProAPP® 300 synthesis reactor

A Glatt ProAPP® synthesis reactor with a reactor diameter of 300 mm is available to you for the process development of customized high-performance powders by means of Glatt powder synthesis in a pulsating gas stream. This pilot/production plant allows different process options such as particle formation, drying, calcination and core-shell coatings as well as their combination in a single process step. The knowledge gained in laboratory tests can be used here directly in pilot tests to design production plants.

Unlike our laboratory-scale plants, the oldest pulsation reactor at the Weimar site is not heated electrically but by a pulsating gas burner. This allows process gas temperatures between 400°C and 900°C.

The gas-fired plant has different systems for product separation, so that both hot and cold separation can be realized.

  • process temperatures between 400°C and 900°C
  • raw material feed rate up to 100 kg/h
  • gas heated system
  • hot separation via partial flow hot gas filter, as well as cyclone or two different filter systems for cold separation

Glatt ProAPP® 300 synthesis reactor at the Glatt Technology Center in Weimar

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