About Spraydryconsult & SPRAY DRYING

SPRAYDRYCONSULT offers consultancy services to industries using spray drying and associated drying technologies e:g, fluid bed systems, in their manufacturing processes.

Consultancy services are provided by K. Masters, who has been long associated with spray drying technology development and product applications in industry. He has become recognised as a leading authority on spray drying being the author of a series of spray drying books that provide a most comprehensive coverage of the subject. Spray Drying was published in three editions (1972, 1976, 1979), Spray Drying Handbook in two editions (1985, 1991), and Spray Drying in Practice in two editions 2002, 2023.
The 2023 edition features S.G Masters Ph.D as a co-author.

SPRAY DRYING involves the atomization of a liquid feedstock which can be either an aqueous or solvent based solution, suspension or emulsion into individual droplets, which are sprayed into hot air or inert gas promoting evaporation of the droplet volatiles. The resulting drying process creates dry particles which are subsequently collected as a powder.

The Spray Drying operation consists of:

Liquid Atomization and Droplet Formation
Spray Droplet Mixing with Hot Air or Inert Gas
Droplet Volatiles Evaporation
Particle Drying
Particle (Powder) Recovery
Powder After-Treatment,
Product Collection and Packaging