Spray dryer for heat-sensitive materials
Optimize your production line with a high-capacity spray dryer designed for precise moisture management, ensuring consistent quality in heat-sensitive powders such as whey proteins and infant formula. Enhance product stability and functionality through reliable drying, cooling, and powder separation.
Efficiently Spray Dries and Cools Heat-Sensitive Powders
The Tetra Pak® Spray Dryer Tall Form Bustle is an engineered-to-order solution expertly designed for the dairy and nutritional product industries, offering high-precision spray drying for heat-sensitive powders. This continuous system utilizes advanced atomization and drying technology, effectively processing a range of applications from whey protein concentrates to plant-based nutrition powders. With a capacity to produce up to 10 tonnes of powder per hour, this equipment ensures optimal integration into your production line, supporting evaporation, crystallization, and powder handling processes.
Incorporating a straight tube air distributor with a high-pressure nozzle assembly, the system minimizes energy consumption while maintaining consistent atomization. The modular design allows for scalability, and the integrated chamber roof cooling system prevents powder deposits, ensuring product quality. Automated controls, including spray monitoring and exhaust air heat recuperation, enhance operational efficiency and energy savings.
Constructed from high-grade materials, the equipment offers excellent corrosion resistance, meeting food-grade standards for hygiene and safety. It supports easy cleaning with a CIP system, minimizing downtime and maintaining high production standards. Customization options are available to tailor the system to specific product requirements, backed by comprehensive engineering support from Tetra Pak’s team of experts.
Benefits
- Maximizes production efficiency with continuous high-speed drying processes.
- Reduces energy consumption through efficient air distribution and heat recuperation.
- Ensures high-quality powder output with consistent particle control and minimal deposits.
- Offers flexibility for diverse product formulations, expanding production capabilities.
- Simplifies maintenance and cleaning with integrated CIP system, minimizing downtime.
- Applications
- Skim milk powder,Hydrolyzed proteins,Mineral powders,Whey protein concentrates (wpc80),Infant formula powder,Whey protein isolates (wpi),Nutritional powders,Plant-based powders,Dairy products
- End products
- Baby formula milk powder,Lactose-free nutrition drinks,Vegan protein powders,Sports nutrition supplements,Muscle recovery supplements,Whey protein shake mixes,Electrolyte mineral blends,Fortified smoothie powders,High-protein meal replacements,Skim milk for coffee creamers
- Steps before
- Evaporation,Crystallisation
- Steps after
- Powder handling,Packing
- Input ingredients
- WPC80,WPI,skim milk,minerals,hydrolyzed proteins
- Output ingredients
- non-caking powder,non-hygroscopic powder
- Market info
- Tetra Pak is renowned for providing innovative packaging solutions, specializing in carton packaging for the food and beverage industry. It is esteemed for high-quality, sustainable, and efficient processing and packaging equipment on a global scale.
- Capacity
- 0.5 to 10 tonnes/hour
- Automation
- Fully automatic
- Air pressure drop
- Relatively low
- Thermal Efficiency
- Higher thermal efficiency due to shaking motion
- Energy Recuperation
- Exhaust air heat recuperator
- Maximum Air Inlet Temperature
- 280˚C
- Exhaust Fan Design
- Discharge via exhaust fan
- Automation level
- Fully Automatic
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Cleaning method
- CIP
- Changeover time
- Minimized
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Heat sensitivity
- High
- Agglomeration risk
- Medium
- Foaming potential
- Low
- Viscosity
- Variable
- Powder functionality
- Non-caking
- Hygroscopicity
- Non-hygroscopic
- Discharge method
- Continuous spray drying
- Compact footprint
- Modular design
- Control panel type
- PC monitor with camera system
- Chamber design
- Tall form bustle with chamber roof cooling
- Air distributor design
- Straight tube air distributor with integrated high-pressure nozzle
- Swivel adjustable lances
- Side-mounted placement for safety
- Control panel type
- HMI,PLC Integration
- Integration possibilities
- Full Tetra Pak line solution
- Swivel adjustable lances
- Yes,for operator safety and process adjustments
- Multiple venturi deployments
- Modular design enhances capacity
- Fines return capability
- Optional,for improved product properties
- Middle pressure fines transport system
- For recovered fine powder
- Multiple feed systems
- Supports 24/7 production
- Spray monitoring system
- Includes camera system for control and safety