Pilot Scale Spray Drier

Pilot-Scale Spray Dryer  is an scaled-up mobile minor, which is recently added to Deakin University Biofactory, Australia.

Deakin’s BioFactory delivers an advanced biomanufacturing capability at Deakin’s Waurn Ponds campus in Geelong, Australia linked to expanded multi-institutional facilities among  RMIT, Monash Universities for food, water, and biosolids processing, and connected to product, process quality and analytical capabilities .

The objective of the mobile minor is to bridge between lab-scale and commercial spray dryer. This is an excellent facility for real-life trials before going to high commercial investment.   This instrument is designed to exert the closest conditions the biocompounds experience during solid particle formation from aquatic solution.

Microencapsulation of Grape Seed Polyphenols Using a Pilot-scale Spray Dryer

Phenolic compounds extracted from the byproducts of winemaking industries are potentially valuable supplements for the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. However, the high degree of instability of the extracted phenolic compounds provides a challenge for commercial utilization of these compounds. This work was devoted to optimizing the microencapsulation process of phenolic containing grape seed extract (GSE) using a pilot-scale spray dryer to demonstrate the commercial scale manufacturing potential of this process. The combined effect of drying temperatures, core/coat matrix and feed flow rate on the product yield, encapsulation efficiency, retention of GSE bioactivity and microcapsule characteristics are explained in this article.