GEA Niro will be participating at the Anuga FoodTech
2009 in March in Cologne, Germany. This year the
world leader within process engineering will present a new unique concept that
will improve and optimize customers drying processes.
Better powder at
the expense of lower costs. Sounds good to be true? Well, it isn’t. Customers
and visitors will be able to see the newly developed unique concept from GEA
Niro with their own eyes at the Anuga FoodTech 2009 from March 10 – 13 2009 in
Cologne, Germany. On a showcase with an ultrasonic levitator it will be
demonstrated, exactly how the DRYNETICS™ method will work by inserting a drop
of liquid and see it hang in the air.
The DRYNETICS™ method will also
be demonstrated on a big flat screen with videos from the laboratory, Computer
Fluid Dynamics (CFD) with animations of the spray drying process and on posters
with pictures of a test assembling and graphics of the methods behind the
DRYNETICS™.
DRYNETICS™ is a concept that engineers from GEA Niro have
been working on for the past three years. The DRYNETICS™ concept is ideal for
making computer simulations to optimize and make better plants. Tests are run
on a given feed, and a model of the drying process is made on basis of that.
The model is put into the CFD simulations of full scale spray dryers, which
makes the calculations very accurate.
DRYNETICS™ combined with the
know-how of GEA Niro’s engineers finds spray drying conditions and plant design
for a customer’s product ensuring that an offered plant is optimized in respect
to product quality and plant capacity. This saves the customer money. The
customers can also use the assembling to examine different products.
If
we change the content of the feed, we can tell our customers, which feed will
be more suitable for spray drying. We can do this with very little amounts of
feed, and a customer can then choose 2-3 feeds to be spray dried at our Test
Station, whereas formerly he would have to test several kilos of each feed to
find the best one.
GEA Niro developed the DRYNETICS™ concept after the
company was contacted by a professor and Ph.D. student from the Friedrich
Alexander University in Germany, who wanted to build an apparatus to
investigate the drying process of drops. GEA Niro supported the project and on
the basis of the results the GEA Niro engineers decided to continue the
research and build their own equipment.
The Test and Development
department at GEA Niro is basis for the equipment and method that five
engineers have been working on, on and off, for the past three years. For now,
DRYNETICS™ is available at the GEA Niro Test Centre in Soeborg, Denmark.
If
you want to see the new and unique concept from GEA Niro and many other
existing processes from GEA Process Engineering, please visit us at Anuga
FoodTech 2009. See further information below.
Information
Place:
Anuga FoodTech will be held in Exhibition Center Cologne
Hall, Halls 4.1, stand no. G010/H029
Exhibition hours
All days: 9
a.m. - 6 p.m.
Stand size:
950 mē
Who will be at the stand?
11 companies of GEA Group- GEA Niro, GEA Diessel, GEA Filtration, GEA Niro
Soavi, GEA PHE Systems, GEA Procomac, GEA Refrigeration, GEA TDS, GEA
Tuchenhagen, GEA Westfalia Separator and GEA Wiegand.