Tray Dryer

Description

PHARMACEUTICAL APPLICATIONS

• Tray dryer is used in the drying of the sticky materials.
• Tray dryers are used in the drying of the granular mass or crystalline materials.
• Plastic substances can be dryed by the tray dryers.
• Wet mass preparations, precipitates and pastes can be dried in a tray dryer.
• In the tray dryers the crude drugs, chemicals, powders and tablet granules are also dryed and shows free flowing of the materials by picking up the water.
• Some types of equipments can also be dryed in the tray dryers.

ADVANTAGES

1. In the tray dryers the handling of the materials, loading and unloading of the materials can be done without losses.
2. Tray dryer is operated batch wise. Batch drying isused extensively in the manufacture of the pharmaceuticals for the following reasons
3. Each batch of the materials can be handled as as separate entity.
4. The batch sizes in the pharmacetical inustry are relatively small 250 kg or less per batch compared with the chemical industry 1000 kg or more per hour.
5. The same equipment is readily adjusted for the use in drying a wide variety of the materials.
6. Valuable products can be handled efficiently.