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Temp. Controlled by:

Fully Perforated 15" Pan

Inputs for Calculations:

Calculations:

From a process parameter perspective
the overall coating conditions are:

VERY WET WETTER DRIER VERY DRY

Risks:

Suspension Preparation Example

Spray solids15%
Suspension to spray500 g
15%
Total to prepare575 g (≈ 546 mL at 1.05 g/mL)
Solids (coating powder)86 g
Water489 g

Coating system and viscosity

Coating systemOpadry® II (PVA-based) pigmented
Estimated viscosity≈ 75 cP

Equipment

Procedure

  1. Add 489 g of water to the vessel.
  2. Adjust the height of the impeller to be just above the bottom of the vessel and align to the center. Turn on the impeller and adjust the speed to form a vortex almost all the way down to the impeller.
  3. Add the 86 g of powder as fast and as uniformly as possible without collapsing the vortex.
  4. Once all the powder has been added and dispersed, reduce the impeller speed to maintain a slight vortex at the surface.

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Spray Gun Setup Example

Recommended starting points for a 48" pan with 4 guns spraying 100 g/min per gun, aesthetic coating.

Spray gunSpraying Systems
Atomizing air (psi)32–40 psi
Pattern air (psi)27–36 psi
Gun-to-bed distance9–10.5 in (22.9–26.7 cm)
Gun-to-gun spacing5–6 in (12.7–15.2 cm)

Setting up

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Tablet Details Example

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Example below: the values read from a 10.40 mm deep concave round drawing.

From the drawing (check and edit if needed)

10.4 2 97.52 84.29 32.68 84.97 0.22 0.38 35

You measure

6.2 450

Results

2.20 267 356 1.27 ≈ 0.76 213,333 0.051 ≈ 34 µm 1.50 Deep concave round (cup depth 19% of diameter): tumbles well, low twinning risk

For a 96 kg batch at 3% weight gain.

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Scale-Up

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From development pan to production in a fraction of the time.

Pinpointing the process parameters that drive your critical quality attributes, shaping a focused design of experiments, and carrying your process to production-scale equipment.

What you get

What’s behind it

Less trial and error, fewer engineering batches, and a faster path to a robust production process.

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Manage Pans

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Up to 50 individual pans per user can be added and customized, either by manual entry or with specifications generated for your specific pan’s make, model, pan size, and year.

Each pan sets

Example pan

PanFully Perforated 48" Pan
Working volume197 L
Pan diameter1.22 m
Number of guns4
Airflow (green)1,600–1,900 cfm
Spray rate (green)325–410 g/min
Exhaust temperature (green)42–47 °C
Pan speed (green)5–8 rpm

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Report

Download a Word report of the current settings, ready to file with a batch record or share with your team. It includes:

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