1. What is a Vacuum Drying Machine?
A vacuum dryer is an industrial drying machine designed to remove moisture from liquid, powders, granules, or heat-sensitive materials under reduced pressure. By lowering the boiling point of water, low-temperature vacuum dryers preserve product quality and prevent thermal degradation. Hywell offers a range of industrial vacuum dryers, pharmaceutical vacuum drying machines, food vacuum dryers, and chemical vacuum drying equipment for diverse applications.
2. What Types of Vacuum Drying Machines Are Available from Hywell?
Hywell Machinery offers several types of vacuum drying machines to meet different process requirements:
1). Vacuum Shelf Dryer
• Uses stacked shelves in a sealed chamber for batch drying.
• Ideal for heat-sensitive pharmaceuticals, food powders, and chemical materials. It can also dry the liquid materials
• This vacuum dryer equipment heats only the trays through the heat source, so heat transfer is relatively slow, and the drying speed is also slower.
2). Rotacone Vacuum Dryer
• Combines rotation and conical design for efficient mixing and drying of granules and powders.
• Suitable for chemical, pharmaceutical, and food materials requiring precise moisture control.
• The double-cone vacuum dryer can only dry powders and granules; it cannot dry liquids.
3) High-Efficiency Vacuum Dryer
• This kind of high vacuum drying machine heats not only the drying trays but also the entire chamber — including the top, bottom, sides, and rear — ensuring very fast heat conduction and therefore a much faster drying speed.
• The vacuum dryer is equipped with a high-performance vacuum pump system, which can reach a maximum vacuum level of -0.099 MPa.
• This high-efficiency vacuum dryer is specially designed for drying high-viscosity or high-sugar-content liquids, solving the problems of materials that cannot be dried by a spray dryer.
4). Conical Paddle Vacuum Dryer
• Features a conical vessel with internal paddles for continuous mixing and drying.
• Ideal for powder and granules, non-viscous liquid, or difficult-to-dry materials in pharmaceutical, chemical, and food industries.
3. What Heating Methods Are Available for a Vacuum Dryer?
Hywell vacuum dryers can be customized with different heating options:
• Steam Heating – Clean, uniform heat for pharmaceutical and food applications.
• Thermal Oil or Hot Water Heating – Efficient for high-capacity industrial vacuum drying.
• If the customer has no steam or hot water available, Hywell will provide an electric water-heating system to supply hot water for heating the vacuum dryer.
4. What Materials Are Used in Vacuum Dryers?
Vacuum dryers can be built from different materials depending on the process:
1. 304 Stainless Steel – Standard for food and chemical applications.
2. 316L Stainless Steel – High-purity pharmaceutical and sanitary-grade processes.
5. Advantages of Using a Vacuum Dryer
• Faster and more uniform drying than conventional dryers.
• Gentle handling preserves product integrity and quality.
• Lower energy consumption due to efficient heat transfer under vacuum.
• Scalable from laboratory to large industrial production.
• Available in vacuum shelf dryers, rotacone vacuum dryers, high-efficiency vacuum dryers, and conical paddle vacuum dryers for versatile applications.
• Ideal for industrial vacuum drying, pharmaceutical vacuum drying, food vacuum dryers, chemical vacuum drying machines, and other specialized processes.