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A renowned North American multinational dedicated to the production of agrochemicals has entrusted Bachiller to design and manufacture a drying and homogenization equipment for its plant in Northern Europe.

The supplied equipment consists of a 3.000 l Supradry SDV-030 vacuum dryer, a 5.000 l Supramix MVC-050 homogenizer, a 7.000 l Supramix MVC-070 homogenizer, a heating and cooling system skid mounted, a vacuum and recovery of solvents system skid mounted, and the dosing systems from equipment to transportation systems by rotary valves.

Prior to the design and manufacture of the equipment, a set of tests were carried out in the BACHILLER’s Test Center facility in Barcelona. With the operational parameters and the results of the tests, it was possible to validate that the final product met the necessary quality requirements, and it also allowed to know the behavior of the product once dried, which led to the addition of Supramix homogenizers to the installation, one prior to drying and one later to avoid caking in both cases. The complete report was issued to the client with the information of the process and the evolution of it.

One of the key factors to gain the client’s trust has been the ability to define the solution, and the BACHILLER’s commitment to the results of the productive capacity of the solution, strengthening this trust with the flexibility and ability to modify the design of these equipment during the manufacturing process, due to the importance of maintaining the dates from the beginning (schedule driven project), constantly adapting to the new discovered parameters of the product.

A German company dedicated to the production of precious metals derivate products, has entrusted us, first in the development of the process, and afterwards with the developed process industrialization for their production plant.

In this project, the client has asked us a budget for an equipment, to be integrated as a part of a solution. However, once we started to work on the process, and validate it in our test center, we realized that there were more efficient ways to solve their production needs, and together we took the path of improving their initial process request, to achieve the finally supplied solution.

We are delighted to go to Germany personally for commissioning and start up this integral solution, since it all started in one of the last face-to-face meetings held in March 2020. Subsequently, all the development in our laboratory was followed by the client through videoconferences, and finally just before Christmas we reached an agreement to manufacture the solution to the process proposed by our team, based on the path traveled with our process technicians in the test center.

We can’t wait to see the first batches going out and to develop more vacuum drying and filtration solutions for our customers’ needs  and have a result like the one we achieved in this project!

Bachiller has manufactured a 1,000 liter Supramix-S in Hastelloy C-22 for a Canadian multinational in the mining sector.

The equipment consists of a vertical spiral vacuum dryer with cartridge filter, power panel and touch panel control, a vacuum skid and a solvent recovery unit.

In order to achieve an industrial process with reliable results, Bachiller previously simulated the client’s process in its Test Center, a process that required specific drying conditions that respected the physical-chemical properties of the product given its high added value. Once the necessary adjustments were made and the expected results were achieved, the equipment was scaled with the appropriate technology to a desired standard industrial size.

September 18 and 19 in Lyon, France.

Giphac is aimed at Health-Beauty professionals and more specifically the staff on the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, perfume, fine chemicals, laboratories and research centres, as well as related sectors.

Bachiller is showing its latest solutions in process equipment, from laboratory scale machines to complete industrial production installations:

• mixing liquids and creams
• mixing solids and powders
• nutsche filters
• vacuum drying

The Bachiller processing equipment has been specially designed in response to the needs of the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries, guaranteeing the quality of the process and being respectful with the product. Designed in accordance with cGMP standards, our machines are validatable in sterile applications.

We will be happy to know more about your needs.

You can find us at Stand A9-B10.

This process equipment has been designed and manufactured by Bachiller for our customer, a Portuguese fine chemicals company. The installation is composed of 2 Bicuum (double cone vacuum dryers) of 1,000L each, 1 hydrogenator, 2 vacuum skids and 3 heating skids.

During the tests, we were able to verify the efficiency and effectiveness of the equipment, which is now ready to be delivered.

THE EQUIPMENT
The Bicuum by Bachiller is a double-cone rotary drum vacuum dryer, suitable for ultra-vacuum drying of all types of moist, crystalline and amorphous thermo-sensitive products.

The Bicuum vacuum dryer consists of a fully heated and insulated drum, which rotates at low speeds while being subjected to a strong vacuum, which continuously renews the product in contact with the hot walls.

Advantages:

• Mechanical simplicity, low maintenance required.
• Full tightness.
• The very low weight of the product – power consumption ratio.
• Easy to clean and inspect.
• Repetitive, reproducible and easy to scale processes.

Bachiller is attending POWTECH 2019, 9-11 April, Nuremberg (Germany), showing the latest news in solid and powder mixers, agitated Nutsche filter dryers and vacuum dryers.

POWTECH is the leading trade fair for Powder & Bulk Solids Processing and Analytics.
It is the presentation platform for innovations and further developments around processes which produce and process quality products from powder, granulate, bulk material and liquid. It covers the entire spectrum of powder and bulk solids technology from fine to coarse, from life science to pit and quarry.

POWTECH is the world’s undisputed number one for powder, granule and bulk solids technologies. It reflects the current state of the art in mechanical processing technologies and instrumentation – and so provides a unique overview for a variety of industries from glass, building materials and paper to pharmaceuticals, chemicals and food.

Experts visit POWTECH to look for pioneering innovations in size reduction, screening, mixing, conveying, dosing or granulating and many other processes.

Hall 1, Booth 510.

Conical Vacuum Dryer Bachiller

Bachiller is delivering a set of three 4.5 m³ conical screw vacuum dryers to a major European pharmaceutical company, at its facilities in East Asia.

The vertical conical vacuum dryer has a sanitary design, with a maximised heating surface, for the drying of all kinds of moist thermo-sensitive, crystalline, amorphous or paste products.

The conical vacuum dryer comprises a fully conical vertical vessel, with a vertical screw mixing and drying system.

These pieces of equipment are equipped with:

• Powder retention filter in the vacuum outlet,
• Choppers for braking lumps or balls of product.
• CIP system validated with riboflavin test,
• Sampling valve,
• Automatic loading and unloading system,
• Condensation, vacuum and heating system.
• Control Hardware and software.

Advantage:

• Sanitary design cGMP, FDA validated.
• Ultra vacuum batch operation.
• Full tightness.
• Mechanical simplicity, low maintenance required.
• Easy to clean and inspect.
• Repetitive operation, reproducible and easy to scale up.