Applications of spray dryers

Milk products

• By volume of product dried, the dairy industry is by far largest user of spray
dryers of food processing
• Milk is always concentrater in falling-film evaporation to a solid content of
45-55 % before spray drying because the cost of removing wáter in the
evaporator is about 1/10 the cost of removing it in a spray dryer
• Spray dried milk products are re-dissolved or dry mixed when utilized
 Instant coffee
• Prior to spray drying the coffee is cleaned, blended, roasted and
granulated

Fruits and vegetables product

• Fruit pulps, juice and pastes can be spray dried
Pharmaceuticals products

• Algae, antibiotic and moulds, bacitracil, penicillin, streptmomycin

• Mos spray drying of pharmaceutical and biochemical products is done

using two-fluid or pressure nozzle atomizer.