Food & Beverage Analysers | Spray Drying Safety

Food & Beverages

Supporting Critical Chemical Production Processes

Spray drying is a widely used process for converting liquids and slurries into dry powders. Common across the food, beverage, feed, and pharmaceutical industries, it enables efficient production while maintaining product consistency and quality. As manufacturers face increasing demands for productivity, energy efficiency, and operational safety, optimizing spray drying operations has become more important than ever.

Diagram of spray drying process analysis challenges and measurement points

Spray Drying Challenges

Improving Safety & Efficiency in Spray Drying Operations

As demand, energy costs, and environmental requirements continue to rise, manufacturers face increasing pressure to improve the performance of spray drying operations. Maintaining safe production environments while maximizing efficiency requires continuous monitoring of critical process conditions. Hobré's advanced monitoring solutions help operators reduce operational risks, improve productivity, and maintain reliable process performance.

Safety Improvements

A product for example that is often spray dried is milk powder. Although the production of milk powder seems like a harmless production process, the opposite is true. Spray drying to produce powdered milk is a potentially hazardous process that must constantly be monitored to avoid major safety issues. CO detection is the only pre-warning protection method available to monitor spray dryers for any signs of thermal degradation (smolders) before they become potential hazards resulting in a fire or explosion. Hobré offers the high-end BICOSYS and HICOSYS ADVANCED analyzers to support you in your endeavors of safety improvements.

Efficiency Improvement

Humidity is one of the most important parameters which can be used in maximizing the efficiency of spray drying operations, resulting in productivity gains up to 12%. Measurement of absolute humidity at elevated temperatures and high dust loads – in an accurate and reliable way – has always been a challenge for end-users. With our proprietary sampling probes, our analyzers are capable of measurement at the most challenging locations such as the tower exhaust, even before filtration by the cyclones and/or bag filters. Hobré offers the state-of-theart HICOSYS ADVANCED and HICOSYS AQUA analyzers to support you in your endeavors of efficiency improvement.