Industrial pan dryer for pharmaceuticals
For heat-sensitive powders and pastes requiring precise moisture levels, this pan dryer offers superior thermal homogeneity and efficient vacuum drying, ensuring consistent results in your batch and pilot operations.

Dries and Mixes Powders and Pastes Efficiently
The Guedu® Pan Dryer by De Dietrich Process Systems is engineered for the precise drying and mixing of heat-sensitive powders and pastes, crucial in pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, pigments, and precious metal processing. By utilizing dynamic vacuum drying, this equipment ensures low residual moisture and excellent thermal homogeneity. Its specially designed agitator not only promotes efficient mixing and heat transfer but also provides over 50% of the energy required for drying. This dryer integrates seamlessly into batch or pilot operations, offering a compact design that optimizes volume-to-footprint ratio for easy installation. Available in various material options to handle corrosive environments, it complies with stringent industry standards for safety and performance. The Guedu® Pan Dryer is customizable to meet specific process needs, ensuring you have the right solution for consistent, high-quality end products like APIs, specialty solvents, color pigments, and gold powders.
Benefits
- Ensures uniform drying for consistent product quality, critical in sensitive applications.
- Reduces energy consumption by providing over 50% of drying energy through agitator heating.
- Integrates easily into existing setups, minimizing installation costs and space requirements.
- Customizable options meet diverse process requirements without compromising performance.
- Complies with industry standards, ensuring safe and reliable operation.
- Applications
- Pigments,Precious metal,Fine chemicals,Pharmaceuticals
- End products
- Gold powders,Color pigments,Specialty solvents,Active pharmaceutical ingredients
- Steps before
- Grinding,Slurry Preparation,Mixing,Filtration
- Steps after
- Sterilization,Packing,Coating,Assembly
- Input ingredients
- Output ingredients
- Market info
- De Dietrich is renowned for manufacturing high-quality engineered-to-order (ETO) equipment, specializing in chemical process systems, glass-lined reactors, and filtration technologies, with a strong reputation for innovation, reliability, and safety in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
- Residual moisture
- Low
- Agitation
- Efficient mixing and thermal homogeneity
- Energy requirement
- More than 50% provided by agitator heating
- Volume to footprint ratio
- Excellent
- Industries applicable
- Pharmaceuticals,Fine chemicals,Pigments,Precious metal
- Working mechanism
- Agitated dynamic vacuum drying
- Automation level
- Manual / PLC
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch
- Changeover time
- Minimal
- Cleaning method
- CIP / Manual
- Energy efficiency
- High product renewal rate on heated surfaces
- CIP/SIP
- CIP compatible
- Abrasion resistance
- High
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Yes
- Cleanability
- Easy to clean
- Delicate product compatibility
- Yes
- Compact footprint
- Excellent volume to footprint ratio
- Discharge method
- Not specified
- Agitation system
- Guedu® Agitator
- Heated surfaces
- Design with high product renewal rate
- Machine design
- Robust,proven design
- Customizability
- Adapted to all conditions of use
- Control panel type
- HMI/PLC
- Agitator type
- Guedu® agitator
- Integration possibilities
- Existing plant systems
- Compact footprint
- Yes
- Heating options
- Agitator heating