Swirl fluidizer for drying pastes and slurries
Optimize your production line with an efficient drying solution for homogeneous, non-agglomerated powder conversion from pastes, slurries, and filter cakes, ensuring consistent quality and reducing processing time.
Dries and Disintegrates Viscous Materials into Fine Powders
The SWIRL FLUIDIZER® from GEA is a compact, cost-effective drying solution tailored for the chemical, pharmaceutical, and food industries, transforming challenging materials like pastes, slurries, and filter cakes into fine, homogeneous powders. This system employs a vertical bottom-driven agitator, ensuring uniform feed disintegration before introduction to the drying chamber via a custom-designed horizontal auger. The drying chamber, equipped with a tangential air inlet, optimizes thermal efficiency for heat-sensitive products. Uniquely designed for continuous operation, it supports applications producing chemical additives, pharmaceutical powders, and food ingredients like instant powders. The patent-pending Dual Feed System adapts for low-viscosity products like silica and titanium dioxide, enhancing moisture distribution for rapid evaporation. With options for new installations or retrofits, integration is seamless within existing setups. Energy efficiency and process optimization are key, ensuring reliable performance while meeting industry standards.
Benefits
- Enhances productivity by efficiently handling high-viscosity materials with continuous operation.
- Reduces energy costs through optimized thermal efficiency tailored to product heat sensitivity.
- Increases processing flexibility with adjustable feed systems for varying product viscosities.
- Aligns with sustainability goals by supporting rapid moisture evaporation, minimizing resource use.
- Easily integrates into existing facilities, offering both new installation and retrofit capabilities.
- Applications
- Food,Titanium dioxide,Silica,Chemical,Pharmaceutical
- End products
- Silica gel,Chemical additives,Pharmaceutical powders,Instant food powders,Titanium dioxide pigments
- Steps before
- Feed Preparation,Slurry Creation,Filter Cake Production
- Steps after
- Powder Handling,Packing,Quality Control
- Input ingredients
- pastes,filter cakes,highly viscous slurries,silica,titanium dioxide,materials with low solids content
- Output ingredients
- fine dry powder,homogenous dry powder,non-agglomerated dry powder
- Market info
- GEA is known for its expertise in engineering innovative and sustainable equipment and solutions, focusing on sectors such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and energy, with a reputation for quality, efficiency, and advanced technological applications in industrial processing.
- Agitator type
- Vertical bottom driven
- Automation
- PLC-controlled
- Drying method
- Swirl fluidization
- Feed type
- Paste / Filter cake / Viscous slurry
- Feed distribution
- Horizontal auger with controlled speed
- Drying chamber design
- Optimized for feed disintegration and distribution
- Dual Feed System
- Patent pending
- Working mechanism
- Vertical bottom driven agitator
- Integrated steps
- Feed disintegration,drying,powder discharge
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Automation level
- Controlled speed via horizontal auger
- Cleaning method
- Manual / CIP
- Energy efficiency
- Optimized for thermal efficiency
- Machine Footprint
- Compact
- Agitator Type
- Vertical bottom driven
- Discharge Method
- Powder handling system
- Shape
- Vertical tank with horizontal auger
- Feed Method
- Controlled speed horizontal auger
- Control panel type
- PLC-controlled / HMI touch screen
- Integration possibilities
- Retrofit to existing units available
- System upgrade
- Dual Feed System (patent pending)
- Footprint
- Compact design
- Speed control
- Variable auger speed