Spheronization - How to make Spherical Pellets
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Spheronizer overview
Spheronization Applications
Making the Spherical Pellets
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Spheronizer overview
Spheronization Applications
Making the Spherical Pellets
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The Marumerizer spheronizer produces consistently uniform spherical granules at the size you need to perfect your application.
The creation of spherical pellets can bring high value to your process and your business. Spherical pellets can help improve your product, simplify plant procedures, and reduce costs.
Traditionally it has been difficult to reliably and accurately spheronize material. Fortunately, exceptional Japanese engineering and manufacturing from Fuji Paudal have created a reliable and cost-effective method for the spheronization of today’s high-performance products.
The wide range of options for particle size means that the Marumerizer is perfectly suited to solve your specific application problem. The Marumerizer quickly and efficiently creates spherical particles to enhance your production process.
Spherical pellets are particularly useful in the pharmaceutical industry for controlled and modified release applications.
Spherical pellets have many benefits in the food industry as well. Pelletizing powder additives helps to improve their bulk density and allow for improved subsequent processing.
The agrochemical industry also greatly benefits from the utilization of spherical pellets. Spheres help with fast release of your active ingredients without creating hazardous dusts.
Many of the same benefits found in pharma, food, and agrochemical industries hold true for the chemical industry as well. In addition to improving your product’s consistency, bulk density, and handling; spherical pellets also enhance the absorption of your products.
The Marumerizer incorporates three principal, precision made components: a vertical cylinder with discharge port, a circular “friction” plate and a variable speed drive train which turns the plate.
Damp cylindrical segments from the extruder are introduced into the Marumerizer bowl from above. As extrudate falls onto the rotating plate, the segments break into cylindrical pellets approximately one diameter long. Each particle is hurled against the inside wall of the cylindrical bowl. Centrifugal and gravitational forces create a mechanically fluidized ring of particles which slowly rotates against the inside wall of the Marumerizer.
Collisions with the wall, friction plate and other particles result in the plastic deformation of each granule as shape gradually changes from cylindrical to spherical. The desired shape for a specific application is time dependent, and is achieved predictably and repeatedly in a very brief period called the “spheronizing” time.
Are you looking to improve your process with spheronization? LCI has the technology and the process expertise to help you every step of the way. Click here to chat with one our process experts and we can help you solve your application problems right away. Or you can send us an email with your needs and we will provide you with an answer shortly.
The wide range of particle choices from the Marumerizer offers the perfect solution for a variety of industries:
