Spray Dryers

No one knows more about spray drying than GEA. Our expertise has been gained over close to a century, during which time we have designed and supplied more than 10,000 GEA NIRO® spray drying plants all over the world, and carried out tests for customers in different industries.

Spray drying: tailored expertise and proven solutions 

We custom design each spray dryer to meet each customer’s specific requirements. Our extensive knowledge in all aspects of spray drying, and our advanced technologies are entirely at your disposal. Together, we can bring your ideas to life and deliver high-quality powders that have properties and characteristics fine-tuned to meet your precise specifications.

Industrial spray dryers

GEA NIRO MSD® spray dryer.

Pilot plant spray dryers

GEA NIRO® PRODUCTION MINOR spray dryer.

Spray drying test facilities

Powder analysis.

Solutions for spray dried dairy powders, food ingredients, pharmaceuticals, instant coffee and chemicals.

Regulatory requirements differ between industries, so every GEA NIRO® industrial spray drying plant must adhere to industry-specific standards, practices, and codes of conduct. We provide specialized spray drying solutions for the dairy and food ingredients industry, the pharmaceutical industry, instant coffee production, and the chemical industry.

 

Spray dryer upgrades and services

GEA offers a suite of expert services, including dairy spray dryer audits, training, and tailored system upgrades. We’ll work with you to select the best solutions for your spray drying plant and business. GEA service solutions can help you to increase plant availability and productivity, and improve sustainability,  while ensuring that your spray drying operations are safe, efficient, and resource responsible.

 
Safety in spray drying

GEA NIRO MSD® spray drying chamber.

Efficiency & quality in spray drying

Inspection of the spray drying process.

AddCool

The GEA AddCool® pilot plant.

Availability: safety & 24/7 production in spray drying

GEA’s spray dryer safety upgrades are designed to help ensure continuous and safe operations. Our explosion protection for spray dryers includes advanced systems such as SPRAYEYE® and COTECTOR®, which actively monitor and reduce fire risks. Through safety audits for spray drying plants, we assess potential hazards and review zoning to keep your facility compliant and operational around the clock.

Productivity: increasing efficiency & quality in spray drying

GEA expertise in spray dryer optimization and options for upgrading capacity can give your plant a real boost in productivity. GEA OptiPartner provides real-time monitoring to improve spray dryer efficiency, while our CEE cyclone and HotSwirl technologies can increase yield and enhance process control. For plants needing more output, we offer spray dryer rebuild and upgrade services and options that can increase capacity without the need for a complete system overhaul. The SANICIP® II bag filter and No Intervention Fines Return System (NIFRS) reduce product loss and can improve final powder quality. 

Sustainability: energy-efficiency upgrades for spray dryers

GEA offers spray dryer upgrades that improve energy efficiency and so support more sustainable spray drying. Our AddCool® heat pump technology captures waste heat to reduce overall energy draw, often cutting the need for fossil fuel-powered boilers. We also offer comprehensive energy audits for spray drying plants, helping to identify opportunities for minimizing resource use. Our OptiPartner automation platform monitors and adjusts the spray drying plant’s operating parameters to help optimize productivity and achieve the best energy and resource efficiency in support of more sustainable processing.

Gasper Calandrino, director of engineering, MMPA

Michigan Milk Producers

GEA OptiPartner improves spray dryer performance at MMPA.

Yili production site

Yili

Yili-GEA partnership supports innovation for safe, future-focused manufacturing

Luigi Vallifuoco, ICAI CEO

ICAI

A spray dryer partnership focused on safety and the environment

Valfoo cofounder Oliver Krayl (left) and Cremo Plant Manager Edgar Fasel.

Valfoo / Cremo

Ambitious project develops spray drying process for lactoferrin

Strategic partnership between Mokate Group and GEA

Mokate

The largest FILTERMAT® unit in Poland used for hot drinks and nutritional supplements

Seagarden: fresh from the sea

Seagarden

FSD® spray dryer used for fish-based hydrolyzed collagen peptide products

Working with Arla Foods to produce better food for our children

Arla Foods

Producing the highest quality infant nutrition ingredients

Danone Nutricia plant at Cuijk, in the Netherlands

Danone

Delivering solutions for sustainable baby formula manufacturing

The essence of a flavor factory

Mother Murphy’s

The essence of a flavor factory

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DMK

GEA OptiPartner improves DMK-Zeven plant

AmulFed plant

Amul

Asia's largest skim milk powder plant

GEA OptiPartner process optimization

Spray drying, optimized

OptiPartner's integration of advanced algorithms and human expertise has led to remarkable results, including up to an 80% stability boost, 10% production increase, and 10% reductions in energy consumption.

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