Last year, BHS announced its acquisition of AVA-GmbH company and its mixing, drying technology. Combining our engineering expertise and project management know-how helps us both better provide a full process solution including mixing-reacting-filtration-cake washing-dewatering and final bone-dry powder. It’s been a year, so let’s now take a look at the different industry application for AVA dryers.
The AVA dryer technology handles mixing, drying, reacting, granulating, sterilizing, evaporating, humidifying, and homogenizing. The tech is batch and continuous, vertical-conical and horizontal for atmospheric and vacuum mixing and drying operations.
In the pharmaceutical industry, the AVA mixers and dryers have uniform heat transfer and drying for temperature sensitive APIs without crystal breakage. The horizontal designs homogenize and dry with very short residence times taking advantage of the AVA back-mixing techniques. For vertical designs, the agitator is heated and sealed with dry-running mechanical seals. These applications benefit also from:
- Validated PLC control systems with CIP
- Complete discharge without residual product for batch-to-batch integrity
- Easy handling of pasty and poor-flowing products
The agricultural chemical industry can also benefit from consistent product quality with CIP and complete discharge without residual product. The AVA mixers and dryers have uniform heat transfer and drying for bulk material products. Integrated dust filters are included. In the vertical designs, the agitator is heated and sealed with dry-running mechanical seals.
Similarly, end users in the fine and specialty chemical industry, can rely on AVA mixers and dryers for uniform heat transfer and drying for bulk material products. The horizontal ploughshare and paddle drying designs homogenize and mix/dry with very short residence times. Taking advantage of the AVA back-mixing and turbulent-mixing techniques allows for pasty and poor-flowing products processing. High-density blending and granulation are also typical operations.
More Markets for Mixing and Drying Technology
In the environmental market, horizontal ploughshare and paddle drying designs homogenize and mix/dry with very short residence times. AVA’s back-mixing and turbulent-mixing techniques allow for the processing of hazardous and combustible waste as well as mixing of dewatered cake and dehydrated pellets at municipal wastewater sludge drying facilities.
The metals market is another primary user of AVA mixing and drying technology. The horizontal ploughshare and paddle drying designs offer the benefits already outlined. Meanwhile, the vertical agitated cone mixer is intended for mixing of free flowing bulk goods within a wide range of particle sizes. The units are equipped with a spraying system used for spray coating of materials.
In the metals industry, high-density blending and granulation are also typical operations with AVA tech. Metals include phosphorus, lithium, anode and cathode pastes and pyrolysis reactions at high processing temperatures, up to 650 degrees C, and drying of single lithium components as well as their precursors, to obtain the required dryness or chemical reactions.
Whatever your industry. the choice of vertical or horizontal designs for batch or continuous operations requires careful analysis of the process and the bulk material. AVA mixing and drying technology is adapted exactly to your respective requirements and raw material properties. At the AVA technical center, each individual application can be tested on horizontal and vertical systems to decide upon the best possible configuration.
You can rely on AVA mixers and dryers along with BHS-Sonthofen many years of process know-how and continuous product development to optimize your full process solution. The goal is to accomplish as many processes as possible in one unit in order to minimize investment and process costs. Learn more today!