Spray Calcination

Precise design of completely new powder types with precisely adjusted properties

Glatt powder synthesis is an improved process for spray drying and spray calcination of fine powders for various applications. These include, for example, raw materials for batteries, catalysts or high-end ceramics. The special feature of this technology is drying and calcination in a pulsating hot gas stream. The variation of the pulsation parameters influences the particle morphology as well as the crystalline structure of the product. In this way, your micro- and nanopowders can be excellently adapted to your specific requirements. Decoupling these parameters from the process temperature allows drying of very sensitive raw materials at lower temperatures. Particle formation, drying and calcination take place in only one process run.

The process of spray calcination with Glatt powder synthesis offers several advantages, which make the design and production of your powders particularly efficient.

By using stock solutions as the starting material, even the smallest quantities of doping elements can be homogeneously distributed in the product. You can react immediately to changing requirements and modify the desired product properties quickly and easily.

Fine atomization and interaction with the pulsating gas flow enable the production of powders in the micro- and submicrometer range. The large specific surface area of such powders has a very high reactivity. The result is, for example, improved catalytic properties or lower sintering temperatures.

Increased reactivity can also be achieved by thermodynamic disequilibrium states in the powder material. As a result of very rapid drying combined with rapid cooling at the reactor outlet, high-temperature phases are frozen or amorphous structures are formed, which often prove useful.

Spray calcination takes place in our pulsation reactors in a continuous mode of operation.