Measurement, monitoring and control of directed product movements in a Wurster-arrangement and suitable systems

US8187663B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Glatt GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Jochen A. Dressler · Mietingen, DE
• Manfred Struschka · Auggen, DE
• Bernhard Luy · Glückstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 23, 2007
• Grant date: May 29, 2012
• Expiry date: Jul 15, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01J2/006
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process for measuring, monitoring and/or controlling directed product movements of fluidized products in process systems (1) selected from fluidized bed and spouted bed systems during a spraying process for coating and/or granulation, which includes, with the aid of one or more microwave sensor devices (8), injecting microwave radiation without contact into one or more product streams, receiving the microwave radiation reflected by the particles of the particular product stream and, on the basis of the microwave radiation received, forming and transmitting a measurement signal for the characterization of the product stream, the corresponding use of microwave sensor devices (8) and correspondingly equipped apparatus (1).