Ultrahigh efficiency spray drying apparatus and process
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United States(US) Patent
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국제특허분류(IPC7판)
B01D-001/18
B01J-002/04
B05B-005/03
B01J-002/16
F26B-005/06
출원번호
US-0055075
(2018-08-04)
등록번호
US-10252181
(2019-04-09)
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/ 주소
Beetz, Charles Pershing
Beetz, Jason Andrew
출원인 / 주소
ZOOMESSENCE, INC.
대리인 / 주소
Hultquist, PLLC
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초록▼
The disclosure relates to ultrahigh efficiency spray drying systems and processes, utilizing induction of localized turbulence in a drying fluid flow stream to produce spray dried product, having particular utility for low temperature spray drying operations. In a specific implementation, a method o
The disclosure relates to ultrahigh efficiency spray drying systems and processes, utilizing induction of localized turbulence in a drying fluid flow stream to produce spray dried product, having particular utility for low temperature spray drying operations. In a specific implementation, a method of processing a spray dryable liquid composition to form a spray dried product includes the steps of: generating a spray of the spray dryable liquid composition; contacting the spray of spray dryable liquid composition in a spray drying contact zone with a stream of primary drying fluid; injecting pressurized secondary drying fluid into the stream of primary drying fluid in the spray drying contact zone at multiple loci thereof to provide localized turbulence at said multiple loci; and recovering the spray dried product from the spray drying contact zone. Systems of the present disclosure are effective in achieving high-rate production of dry powder spray dried products, with substantially reduced capital equipment costs, energy requirements, and operating expenditures.
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1. A spray drying system, comprising: (a) a spray drying vessel comprising: (i) an interior volume arranged to receive an atomized spray-dryable material and drying fluid for contacting of the atomized spray-dryable material with the drying fluid in the interior volume;(ii) at least one drying fluid
1. A spray drying system, comprising: (a) a spray drying vessel comprising: (i) an interior volume arranged to receive an atomized spray-dryable material and drying fluid for contacting of the atomized spray-dryable material with the drying fluid in the interior volume;(ii) at least one drying fluid inlet by which the drying fluid is introduced into the interior volume for said contacting; and(iii) a spray-dried material outlet communicating with the interior volume, arranged to discharge spray-dried material and effluent drying fluid from the vessel;(b) an atomizer adapted to receive a spray-dryable material and discharge the atomized spray-dryable material into the interior volume of the vessel for said contacting;(c) at least one turbulator adapted to generate turbulence in the drying fluid in the interior volume of the vessel;(d) a process control unit adapted to regulate flow rate of drying fluid into the interior volume and flow rate of the spray-dryable material to the atomizer so that interaction of the drying fluid with the at least one turbulator produces turbulence in the drying fluid having a Kolmogorov length less than average particle size of spray-dryable material droplets in the atomized spray-dryable material in the interior volume of the vessel. 2. The spray drying system of claim 1, wherein said turbulence is induced in at least 5 volume % of the volume of drying fluid in the interior volume of the vessel. 3. The spray drying system of claim 1, wherein said turbulence is induced in at least 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, or 95 volume % of the volume of drying fluid in the interior volume of the vessel. 4. The spray drying system of claim 3, wherein said volume % of the volume of drying fluid in the interior volume of the vessel in which said turbulence is induced includes drying fluid in contact with the atomizer. 5. The spray drying system of claim 1, wherein the at least one turbulator includes one or more nozzles configured to inject pressurized secondary drying fluid into the interior volume of the vessel. 6. The spray drying system of claim 5, wherein the at least one turbulator includes an array of nozzles configured to inject pressurized secondary drying fluid into the interior volume of the vessel. 7. The spray drying system of claim 1, wherein the at least one turbulator comprises at least one selected from among twisted tapes, static mixer devices, airfoils, Brock turbulators, wire turbulators, coil turbulators, and wall protrusion turbulators. 8. The spray drying system of claim 1, wherein the atomizer comprises at least one selected from among nozzle atomizers, applied charge atomizers, nebulizers, rotary atomizers, and ultrasonic atomizers. 9. The spray drying system of claim 1, comprising a drying fluid source coupled to the at least one drying fluid inlet in drying fluid supply relationship with the spray drying vessel. 10. The spray drying system of claim 9, wherein the drying fluid source is constituted to supply the drying fluid to the at least one drying fluid inlet of the spray drying vessel, the drying fluid comprising air, oxygen-enriched air, oxygen, nitrogen, argon, krypton, neon, helium, or a gas mixture comprising two or more of the foregoing drying fluid species. 11. The spray drying system of claim 9, wherein the drying fluid source is constituted to supply the drying fluid to the at least one drying fluid inlet of the spray drying vessel at temperature below at least one of 120° C., 115° C., 110° C., 100° C., 95° C., 90° C., 85° C., 80° C., 75° C., 70° C., 65° C., 60° C., 55° C., 50° C., 45° C., 40° C., 35° C., 30° C., 25° C., and 20° C., and above freezing temperature of liquid to be volatilized for spray drying of the spray-dryable material. 12. The spray drying system of claim 9, wherein the drying fluid source is constituted to supply the drying fluid to the at least one drying fluid inlet of the spray drying vessel at temperature below 100° C., and above freezing temperature of liquid to be volatilized for spray drying of the spray-dryable material. 13. The spray drying system of claim 1, comprising a spray-dryable material source arranged in spray-dryable material supply relationship to the atomizer. 14. The spray drying system of claim 13, wherein the spray-dryable material source comprises the spray-dryable material in a carrier-free composition. 15. The spray drying system of claim 13, wherein the spray-dryable material source comprises the spray-dryable material in a carrier-comprising composition. 16. The spray drying system of claim 1, wherein the process control unit is adapted to regulate flow rate of drying fluid into the interior volume and flow rate of the spray-dryable material to the atomizer so that the average particle size of the spray-dryable material droplets in the atomized spray-dryable material in the interior volume of the vessel is in a range of from 50 to 300 μm. 17. The spray drying system of claim 1, wherein the process control unit is adapted to regulate flow rate of drying fluid into the interior volume and flow rate of the spray-dryable material to the atomizer so that turbulence dissipation rate of said turbulence exceeds 25 m2/sec3. 18. The spray drying system of claim 1, wherein the process control unit is adapted to produce intermittent turbulence in the drying fluid. 19. The spray drying system of claim 1, wherein the process control unit is adapted to produce continuous turbulence in the drying fluid. 20. The spray drying system of claim 1, as configured for electrostatic spray-drying. 21. A process for producing a spray-dried material, comprising: generating an atomized spray-dryable material;contacting the atomized spray-dryable material with drying fluid to form spray-dried material;recovering the spray-dried material from the drying fluid; andduring said contacting, inducing turbulence in the drying fluid having a Kolmogorov length less than average particle size of spray-dryable material droplets in the atomized spray-dryable material. 22. The process of claim 21, wherein said turbulence is induced in at least 5 volume % of the volume of drying fluid engaged in the contacting. 23. The process of claim 21, wherein said turbulence is induced in at least 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, or 95 volume % of the volume of drying fluid engaged in the contacting. 24. The process of claim 21, wherein the turbulence is induced by injection of pressurized secondary drying fluid. 25. The process of claim 21, wherein the turbulence is induced by interaction of the drying fluid with a turbulator comprising at least one selected from among twisted tapes, static mixer devices, airfoils, Brock turbulators, wire turbulators, coil turbulators, and wall protrusion turbulators. 26. The process of claim 21, wherein the atomized spray-dryable material is generated by an atomizer comprising at least one selected from among nozzle atomizers, applied charge atomizers, nebulizers, rotary atomizers, and ultrasonic atomizers. 27. The process of claim 21, wherein the drying fluid comprises air, oxygen-enriched air, oxygen, nitrogen, argon, krypton, neon, helium, or a gas mixture comprising two or more of the foregoing drying fluid species. 28. The process of claim 21, wherein the drying fluid is introduced to the contacting at temperature below at least one of 120° C., 115° C., 110° C., 100° C., 95° C., 90° C., 85° C., 80° C., 75° C., 70° C., 65° C., 60° C., 55° C., 50° C., 45° C., 40° C., 35° C., 30° C., 25° C., and 20° C., and above freezing temperature of liquid to be volatilized to form the spray-dryable material. 29. The process of claim 21, wherein the average particle size of the spray-dryable material droplets in the atomized spray-dryable material in the contacting is in a range of from 50 to 300 μm. 30. The process of claim 21, wherein turbulence dissipation rate of the turbulence induced during said contacting exceeds 25 m2/sec3.
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