Alaqua, Inc
Spray Drier
Product Description
Spray Dryers:
What is a Spray Dryer?:
A spray dryer, as the name implies, is a device for drying, utilizing a spray.
A spray dryer mixes a heated gas with an atomized (sprayed) liquid stream within a vessel (drying chamber) to accomplish evaporation and produce a free flowing dry powder with a controlled average particle size.
The unit operation of spray drying includes the following key components:
- A method for atomizing a solution or slurry
- An air/gas heater, or a source of hot air such as a waste flue gas
- A gas/spray mixing chamber with adequate residence time and droplet trajectory distance for achieving the heat and mass transfer
- A means for recovering the solids from the gas stream
- A fan to induce the required air/gas through the spray drying system
The unique feature of a spray dryer is the surface area per unit weight generated by atomization of the liquid feed. It is this fact that enables a spray dryer to work. For example, feed atomized to 100 micron average droplet size generates approximately 15,400 ft2/lb of surface area. The same feed atomized to an average of 20 micron generates approximately 77,021 ft2/lb! This is like spreading one gallon of feed over 14 football fields!
Company Info:
ALAQUA is a US corporation. We manufacture process equipment. Our engineers have over 20 years experience in the engineering of sanitary and ASME code evaporators, crystallizers, spray dryers, solvent recovery and distillation systems. Alaqua was established in 1989, and incorporated in 1993.
Our evaporators, crystallizers, distillation systems have proven themselves time after time in application after application. We supply world wide equipment to meet your processing requirements.
We supply equipment for installation by customer, skid mounted, or as turnkey projects.
The economics of your particular process and location will dictate the evaporator type and model best suited for your needs.
We offer complete project management capability for process installation. Single source responsibility stakes care of total project activity from initial consultation and design, through engineering and installation to final start-up and commissioning.
Who we are:
ALAQUA is an original equipment manufacturer. We design and manufacture calandrias, evaporators, distillation plants,
crystallizers, ethanol plants classification equipment, solvent
recovery systems, and other process equipment for the Chemical, Dairy, Environmental, Food and Beverage industries.
Our engineers have over 20 years experience in designing these systems.
Our Chairman and Director of Engineering was the founder of major corporations such as HPD, and the Unitech Div. of Ecodyne. He was a senior lecturer on evaporation and evaporation at the University of Wisconsin.
We have extensive experience in engineering and fabricating salt and wastewater evaporators and crystallizers. We will be pleased to have you inspect our fabrication in Wisconsin, and/or to arrange for you to contact directly some of our customers.
What We Do:
We design and manufacture to ASME code, EVAPORATORS, CRYSTALLIZERS, DISTILLATION PLANTS, SPRAY DRYERS AND SOLVENT RECOVERY SYSTEMS for the Chemical, Environmental, Food, Dairy, Beverage and Pharmaceutical industries.
Professionals at your Service:
Alaqua`s nucleus of highly skilled engineers and technicians, most of whom have over 20 years experience in the industry developing outstanding products, serve a national and international base of customers.
- We provide engineering, fabrication, installation, start-up and personnel training for every application. We respond to any troubleshooting call rapidly.
- We guarantee operation to specifications.
- We provide engineering and consulting services
- We are with you 24 hours a day, no matter where you are.
To learn more about our evaporator systems & crystallizer systems, please contact us today
