New industrial vacuum tray dryer installation for API production at Farmhispania facility

For Farmhispania, a leading company in the production of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), and our long-standing customer, Italvacuum has recently manufactured and installed an industrial-size vacuum tray dryer equipped with C.I.P. MULTISPRAY® patented fast washing system.

This dryer will be used as an advanced drying solution in an industrial-scale pharmaceutical production process.

Custom installation features for API production

The scope of supply, realized according to the customer's specific needs and requirements, included:
 

• a design phase focused on customer requirements, with particular attention to customized solutions for managing cooling water supply to the condensation unit. 
• careful control of the gas flow rate during vacuum creation prevents wet product from being drawn out of the equipment
• liquid discharge arranged at the back of the dryer to limit operations in the clean room

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The scope of supply also included:
 

• Steam heating and chilled water cooling unit;
• Atmospheric expansion vessel;
• Vacuum condensation unit with shell and tube condenser and condensate collection tank;
• VVC vacuum piston pump Saurus939;
• Removable MULTISPRAY® diffuser for washing plates and the dryer's internal chamber;
• Control System with PLC and HMI for complete production recipe management.
• The SAT (site acceptance test) - completed in the presence of Italvacuum's and customers' technicians.