New product design options for high performance detergents
Glatt technologies for innovative products
Performance and functionality: Owing to their unique flow characteristic and thermodynamic properties, fluidized bed and spouted bed technologies have become established as important formulation processes to optimize powder properties, as well as the particle-forming procedure, when drying solid-containing liquid solutions. Additives functionalize detergents. Surfactants and bleaching agents are used for targeted effect on organic substances.
Glatt-technologies enable to improve the effect of detergents while at the same time fulfilling the stringent requirements regarding environmentally friendly cleaning processes and complying with the criteria regarding storage, handling and dosing.
Different processing options can be used to develop new innovative product forms as well as to establish efficient production processes.
Whether it is spray granulation, spray agglomeration, spray encapsulation or coating – the key to the ideal product is choosing the right process parameters and technical configuration.
Benefits of technology: Depending on current application Glatt technology and equipment support solving typical problems and enabling improved product properties: e.g. safety during handling, quick wetting and dispersing/dissolving, homogeneous component distribution, protection of valuable substances, integrated functionality, stability increase, optimized appearance.
Fluidized and spouted bed equipment: All processing options can be carried in different scales and in batch as well as in continuous operation, starting for R&D usage up to full scale production.
Strategy for product and process development: When developing or optimizing fluid bed and spouted bed technology based products and processes, all materials to be processed and all structural and procedural aspects are to be considered. Best properties can be obtained only by optimizing all of these parameters.
Material properties may both influence product properties and offer opportunities for design. Technical options offer additional options for stabilization. The application-specific operating conditions are vitally important and affect explosion protection, operational and product safety, hygiene and more. Some factors to be considered:
» Material properties and behavior of gas, solid and liquid phases (crystallinity, chemistry, pH, particle size and shape, density, temperature, enthalpy ...)
» Technical configurations (dedusting, explosion protection, classification, spray conditions ...)
» Operating conditions (environmental conditions, emissions, permissions, storage requirements ...)
Glatt technologies are usable to add value or improve product properties of dry detergent formulations. Liquids or powders can be processed to innovative products.