Powder Milling Technology
For over four decades, Quadro has been a leader in powder milling and particle processing technology. With our extensive expertise, we empower customers to enhance their production capabilities and achieve better results.
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- Power Disperser
- Ultra-Fine Powder Grinding
- Powder Security Screening and Deagglomeration
- THE SLS - SCALABLE LAB SYSTEM™
ZC Inline Powder Disperser
The Quadro® Ytron ZC is a market-leading inline powder disperser. It streamlines the incorporation of difficult-to-disperse ingredients in various applications. These include personal care and cosmetics, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals.
This workhorse industrial mixer excels at inline single-pass and re-circulating powder applications. Featuring significantly minimized air entrainment and dramatically shorter dispersion times, this machine can slash batch times by as much as 90% compared to traditional methods.
Quadro Ytron® ZC is a high shear powder disperser. It has the ability to disperse difficult-to-wet powders in a single pass. This high speed mixer is inline, meaning it can work continuously. Inline mixing is ideal for creating products with consistent viscosity and texture.
APPLICATIONS
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Powder dissolution/dispersions
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Powder incorporation
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Mixing Intense Powder Shearing Action
FEATURES
- High shear tooling for intense powder shearing action prior to hydration
- Steep-walled hopper for poorly flowing powders
- Minimal air entrainment reduces or eliminates the need for deaeration
- Optional ergonomic powder dump table integration
- Designed to meet 3-A® Sanitary Standards
- A full-flow ball valve maintains the mass flow of powder through the hopper for effective ball-milling techniques
- High speed incorporation rates for dramatic batch time savings
- Product yield is maximized and wastage is reduced or eliminated
- Accurately scalable from pilot to production volumes
- Stainless steel construction well suited to sanitary processing or to wash down duty environments
- Unique maintenance-friendly features such as no-tool disassembly
- Optional Uniform Film Interface (UFI) hopper for continuous powder dispersion, high solids incorporation rates, reduced aeration and controlled metering of powders for consistent concentration
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Available in four models: ZC0, ZC1, ZC3, ZC5
- ZC Liquid Capacity: 3 – 400 gpm (11 – 1500 l/min)
- ZC Powder Capacity: 30 – 1000 lbs/min (14 – 453 kg/min)
- CIP cleanability options available for all models
- Power: 3 – 60hp (2 – 45kW)
- CDS Liquid Capacity 2 – 70 gpm (7.5 – 265 l/min)
- CDS Powder Capacity: Up to 50% by weight, depending on product/application
* Capacities are product/process dependent and interrelated to equipment setup.
Inline Single-Pass Powder Dispersion
Intense Powder Shearing Action
The Quadro Ytron® ZC is a high-speed inline disperser used for both inline single-pass and recirculating powder dispersion applications. The ZC is uniquely engineered to incorporate and disperse even the most difficult-to-wet powders, thickening agents, and rheology modifiers into a liquid stream in a single pass, in many cases eliminating the need to use additional dispersants or wetting agents.
Dramatic Powder and Batch Time Savings
The Quadro Ytron® ZC is able to achieve a solids dispersion of up to 70% by weight depending on the product, and minimal air entrainment greatly reduces product deaeration time. Since the powder is completely hydrated and free of lumps after a single pass, product yield is maximized and wastage is reduced or eliminated. The high-speed dispersion and hydration performance of the ZC often results in batch time reductions of up to 90%.
Continuous Dispersion System
The Quadro® Continuous Dispersion System (CDS) capitalizes on the advanced dispersion performance of the Quadro Ytron® ZC inline powder disperser, with the unique implementation of the Quadro® Uniform Film Interface (UFI) technology to continuously disperse powders into a controlled liquid stream. The UFI powder disperser technology allows a high degree of control accuracy in continuous mixing applications, with achievable inline concentrations of 50% by weight or higher, depending on the application.
F10 Fine Grind
The Quadro® Fine Grind Model F10 is a turnkey, automated, stand-alone process system, making it the ideal addition to your production line when quick and efficient process integration is paramount. The exclusive all-in-one platform design eliminates the need for ancillary equipment.
It’s advanced fine powder grinding machine, producing the highest percentage within the target PSD of any existing fine milling technology.
For D50 milling in the 5–45 micron (< 325 U.S. standard mesh) range, the Quadro® Fine Grind F10 delivers unsurpassed particle size consistency and maximum on-spec yield. Used to size-reduce diverse materials and those traditionally considered to be difficult to grind such as APIs, excipients, fine chemicals, nutraceuticals and high-value flavors and fragrances.
FEATURES
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Power: 7.5 KW
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Capacity: 10 – 200 kg/h
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RPM: 3600 – 8400
BENEFITS
- High shear tooling for intense powder shearing action prior to hydration
- Steep-walled hopper for poorly flowing powders
- Minimal air entrainment reduces or eliminates the need for deaeration
- Optional ergonomic powder dump table integration
- Designed to meet 3-A® Sanitary Standards
- A full-flow ball valve maintains the mass flow of powder through the hopper for effective ball-milling techniques
- High speed incorporation rates for dramatic batch time savings
- Product yield is maximized and wastage is reduced or eliminated
- Accurately scalable from pilot to production volumes
- Stainless steel construction well suited to sanitary processing or to wash down duty environments
- Unique maintenance-friendly features such as no-tool disassembly
- Optional Uniform Film Interface (UFI) hopper for continuous powder dispersion, high solids incorporation rates, reduced aeration and controlled metering of powders for consistent concentration
SLS S5 – FlexSift
Quiet, dust-free, high-capacity security screening equipment and deagglomeration technology.
Eliminate the threat of foreign contaminants from reaching your process stream with high-capacity centrifugal sifting.
The Quadro® FlexSift has a convenient inline design that has revolutionized security screening equipment technology, with an 80% improvement in efficiency.
Install the FlexSift near the beginning of your process stream to effectively deagglomerate raw materials, whilst capturing and retaining foreign materials and other impurities before they can contaminate your final product. Set another machine just before packing to ensure that the final product is risk-free and protects your brand reputation.
The centrifugal acceleration within the sifting chamber ensures a continuous flow of particles through the mesh which is carefully selected to meet your precise process specifications. Any impurities are retained for later removal. The spoiler arm is designed to gently deagglomerate without reducing the size of the particles. Quiet and dust-free it improves the working environment.
Designed to meet exacting FDA cGMP standards for the safe processing of pharmaceutical powders, food ingredients and cosmetics.
BENEFITS
- LAB-SCALE SIFTING
- Reduction in airborne fine particles minimizing product waste & limiting operator exposure.
- High-efficiency sifting without particle size reduction.
- Nearly 100% product recovery.
- Available in the SLS – Scalable Lab System processing platform – ideal for testing.
FEATURES
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Typical capacities of approximately 500kg/hr..
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Power HP: 1 (0.75) KW
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RPM: 700 – 1
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400 Sound Level: <80 dBA
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Screen Diameter: 82.6mm
SUITABLE FOR
Laboratory Milling & Processing Platform
Five powder milling & processing solutions in one platform for effective laboratory-scale research & development.
A unique benchtop powder milling and screening platform offering five milling, size reduction, and processing solutions. SMARTdetect™ technology enables the milling and screening heads to be swapped within seconds with no setup required.
Lab-scale milling and processing to production
The SLS – Scalable Lab System™ gives the reassurance that particle sizes and distributions achieved in the lab can be directly transferred to the production-scale equipment. The operating parameters are simply transposed from small-scale to full-scale production.
Key size reduction and material processing technologies are possible from one single platform. Using the interchangeable heads you can achieve lab-scale
conical milling, hammer milling and screening. The built-in SMARTdetect™ technology recognizes the head being installed and adjusts the speed range accordingly. This bench-top size milling machine is space-saving as well as cost-effective to own.
BENEFITS
- Reduce capital investment with the SLS: four interchangeable heads on a single drive platform.
- Save development time: change out the head for a different process.
- Extensive screen and impeller options to complement application requirements.
- SMARTdetect™ technology ensures repeatability and consistency.
- Ready for production? Easily scale up to the SDx™ Series
SLS Products:
SLS Comil®
CONICAL MILLING
High-performance conical milling – ideal for all lab milling applications.
BENEFITS
- Consistent repeatable results with tight granulometry.
- Improve product quality with low levels of heat, dust and fines.
- Fully scalable to the Quadro® Comil® production-scale mills.
- Compact benchtop laboratory mill.
FEATURES
- U5 Comil® conical mill.
- In-line spacerless design.
- Wide range of screens & impeller choices to suit the application.
- Capacities: 50g to 150+ kg/hr
- PSD d50: 150-300 µm
- PSD d90: 300-2000 µm
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SLS FitzMill™
HAMMER MILL
High-impact lab hammer mill for achieving finer particle sizes.
BENEFITS
- Adaptable to specific material characteristics – including hard and fibrous products.
- Handle samples as small as 5g without loss of yield or screen residue.
- Fully scalable to the Fitzpatrick milling range.
FEATURES
- FitzMillTM L1A hammer mill.
- 2 blade styles – impact & cutting.
- Metered feed control design scalable to production.
- Capacities: 5g to 50+ kg/hr
- PSD d50: 20-300 µm
- PSD d90: 60-2000 µm
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SLS High-Energy
CONICAL MILLING
High Energy conical milling.
BENEFITS
- Ideally suited to API and fine chemical processing – which require more energy.
- Narrow PSDs with 30-70% more on-target particles.
- Predictable, repeatable particle sizes.
- Results fully scalable to the production-scale equipment.
FEATURES
- H5 High-Energy Comil® cone mill.
- Integrated feed system for increased containment and predictability.
- Capacities: <1kg to 100 kg/hr
- PSD d50: 20-150 µm
- PSD d90: 60-300 µm
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SLS FlexSift
SECURITY SCREENING
In-line security screening.
BENEFITS
- Ideal for deagglomeration.
- High capacity for efficient testing protocols.
- Utilizes standard equipment for fast clean down.
- Fully scalable to the production size equipment.
- Compact tabletop lab-scale mill, install within minutes.
FEATURES
- S5 Quadro® FlexSift.
- High capacity – typically 500 kg/hr.
- Standard deagglomeration spoiler arm.
- Capacities: <125-2500+ kg/hr
- Mesh Size MIN: 150 µm (100 mesh)
- Mesh Size MAX: 6.4 mm (0.25″)
SUITABLE FOR