Granulator Process Solutions
Spray granulators are widely used for forming materials in industries like chemicals, food products and pharmaceuticals. A granulator's main purpose is to convert light, small powders into high-density free-flowing granulates. Accurate particle size measurement is extremely important in granulator processes. Malvern Process Systems instrumentation solves a multitude of granulator issues by:
- Tightening the overall size distribution
- Allowing direct granulator control
- Providing real time size analysis of the growing process
These solutions result in real cost savings during granulator processing. Constant measurements allow for a more consistent marketable product.
In this section
Granulator Process Overview Granulator process solutions involve smaller particles adhering to each other in order to grow larger particles or agglomerates. Particle size is critical in a granulator process solution because if the particles are too large or too small they do not have the product characteristics important to produce light powders into high density free-flowing granulates.
Granulator Concerns There are many variables in controlling a granulator process, ranging from feed rate of the granulator liquid to the resonance time of the granulator chamber. All of these parameters affect the particle size in different ways. With an on-line sensor, the particle size is measured instantaneously and continuously in real time helping to monitor and control the granulator process.
Malvern Analyzers for Granulator Applications Complete online and at-line particle characterization systems appropriate to granulator solutions in the context of different industries.
Granulator Case studies - For more information, see:
Comparing In-Line and Off-Line Analysis of Fluid Bed Granulator A specialty chemical manufacturer installed Parsum probes to measure their granulator efficiency and compare the results to off-line manual sieve analysis.
Online Control of Particle Size with Fluid Bed Granulator Evaluation of a novel Laser probe for better control of particle size in a fluid-bed granulator.
