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Novel Technique for Coating of Fine Particles Using Fluidized Bed and Aerosol Atomizer
Rongyi Zhang, Torsten Hoffmann, Evangelos Tsotsas
June 21, 2021
Fine particles are widely used in many industrial fields, and there are many techniques applied for these particles, like electroplating, and chemical and physical vapor deposition. However, in the food and pharmaceutical industries, most coating processes conducted with fluidized bed use core particles with a diameter larger than 200 μm, otherwise agglomerates are formed. This study contributes to the development of a new coating process for fine particles with diameters of around 50 μm. The innovation lies in the combined use of a Wurster fluidized bed and a novel aerosol atomizer. The feasibility of the operation is based on the application of the aerosol atomizer, which generates droplets smaller than 1 μm in diameter. A series of experiments with different coating solutions and glass beads in a 150 mm fluidized bed fed with droplet aerosol supplied from the cone chamber bottom is presented. The quality of the coating product is analyzed by scanning electron microscopy and CAMSIZER®. In this way, the influence of different conditions and core material properties on the product quality were determined. Experimental results showed the coating layer quality getting worse as coating solution viscosity became lower, meanwhile moderate process temperature was found to enhance coating layer formation and quality of that. It was also observed that lower aerosol feed rates help improve the yield of the process.
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aerosol generator, coating, fine particles, fluidized bed
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Zhang R, Hoffmann T, Tsotsas E. Novel Technique for Coating of Fine Particles Using Fluidized Bed and Aerosol Atomizer. (2021). LAPSE:2021.0527
Author Affiliations
Zhang R: Thermal Process Engineering, Otto von Guericke University, Universitäts Platz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
Hoffmann T: Thermal Process Engineering, Otto von Guericke University, Universitäts Platz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
Tsotsas E: Thermal Process Engineering, Otto von Guericke University, Universitäts Platz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany [ORCID]
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Processes
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8
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12
Article Number
E1525
Year
2020
Publication Date
2020-11-24
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2227-9717
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PII: pr8121525, Publication Type: Journal Article
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