Monday, April 29, 2024

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Roller Mill

Roller mill is a form of compression mill that uses a single, double, or triple cylindrical heavy wheel mounted horizontally and rotated about their long…
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Roller Mill

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Pin Mill

The pin mill also categorized as a disc mill is a kind of milling equipment that can break up cellular materials selectively without damaging the…
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Pin Mill

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Hammer Mill

Hammer mill is the most widely used grinding mill and among the oldest. Hammer mills consist of a series of hammers (usually four or more)…
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Hammer Mill

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Fluidized Energy Mill

Fluidized Energy mill, also known as micronizer or jet mill is a type of mill that consists of a hollow toroid that has a diameter…
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Fluidized Energy Mill

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Edge-Runner Mills and End-Runner Mills

The hand mortar and pestle has for centuries been the standard equipment for achieving size reduction and is still very widely used for small scale…
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Cutter Mill

Cutter mill is a size reduction equipment consisting of a series of uniformly spaced knives (2 to 12 in number) attached to a horizontal rotor…
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Cutter Mill

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Colloid Mills

Colloid mill is a machine used in the disintegration of solid particles or droplet size of a liquid present in suspension or emulsion. The machine…
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Colloid Mills

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Ball Mill

A ball mill also known as pebble mill or tumbling mill is a milling machine that consists of a hallow cylinder containing balls; mounted on…
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Ball Mill

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Rotating Shape Granulators

Granulators are machines that form small particles into permanent aggregates to render them into free-flowing state. In Rotating Shape Granulators, the machine shell or the…
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Rotating Shape Granulators

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Mechanical Agitator Granulators

Mechanical agitator granulators as the name implies are granulators that by virtue of agitator speed, sweep volume, or bed pressures, generate relatively lower shear which…
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High-Shear Granulator

A high-shear granulator consists of a cylindrical or conical mixing bowl, a three-bladed impeller, a chopper, an auxiliary chopper, a motor to drive the blades…
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High-Shear Granulator

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Fluidized Bed Granulator

Fluidized bed granulator is one of the commonly used processing equipment in the pharmaceutical industries. It is a multi-purpose equipment in that mixing, granulation and…
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Fluidized Bed Granulator

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Dry Granulators

Dry granulators are machines used for dry granulation. Dry granulation is a type of granulation process in which granules are formed without using liquid solution.…
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Dry Granulators

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Spray Dryer

Spray drying is a one-step continuous unit operation that employs liquid atomization to produce droplets that are dried to individual particles when moved in a…
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Spray Dryer

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Rotary Dryer

The rotary dryer also known as tumbling dryer is an equipment employed to minimize the moisture content of feed materials by bringing it in direct…
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Rotary Dryer

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Fluidized Bed Dryer

Fluidized bed dryer (also called fluid bed dryer) is a kind of equipment used extensively in the pharmaceutical industries to reduce the moisture content of…
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Fluidized Bed Dryer

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Pneumatic Mixers

Introduction Pneumatic mixers sometimes called air-mix mixers or air-driven mixers are mixers that use compressed air or air bubbles instead of electricity to mix or…
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Pneumatic Mixers

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Diffusion Mixers

Diffusion mixers, also known as tumbling mixers/blender is a powder/solid mixing equipment that consists of a closed metallic vessel (usually stainless steel) that rotates about…
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Diffusion Mixers

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Convective Mixers

Convective mixers consist of a vertical or horizontal static shell or container (cylindrical, conical, U- or W- shaped trough) in which powders are circulated around…
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Convective Mixers

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