Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Prepared
by:
Mussab jaffar
Farhad Rafique
Muhammad
yousaf
farooq bashir
Khalid nawaz
Objectives Of Our
Presentation
1) What are prills and Prillings
2)Why we are studying prillings
3) Prilling Tower?
4)what are grains and granulation
5)why we study granulation
6) Granulator?
7) And their Industrial applications
Introduction
A prill is small agregate of material, most
often a dry sphere formed from melted
liquid
Soldification of droplets of
molten material free falling against
Upward stream of air in tower is
called
Prilling
Prilling Tower
and its
general consederations
Construction of prilling
Tower
Working principle
The molten fertilizer is sent on the top of
fertilizer plant with the help of centrifugal
pump
With the help of spryer molten fertilizer is
droped from the top in the form drops inside
the prilling tower
While from the bottom hot air is blown
which dries the droplets in the form of solid
prills
PRILLING TOWER:
PRILLING TOWER:
PRILLING TOWER:
Drawbacks
The prill tower is a major source of
emission in urea plants. The large volumes
of discharged untreated cooling air contain
particulate urea dust (1-2kg.t-1) as well as
NH3 (0.7-1.0kg.t-1).
Increasing the load on a prilling tower can
have negative consequences for the prill
quality. Higher moisture contents and
higher temperatures cause more dust
formation and an increased likelihood of
caking problems
Importance Of Prilling
TOwer
Prilling tower is backbone of fertilizer or
any other chemical industry where the
final product is in the form of solid prills
We cant imagine a fertilizer industry
without a prilling tower
The process in prilling tower is
continuous , prills moves downward due to
gravitational force
Granulation Technology
Granulation may be defined as a size
enlargement process which converts fine or
coarse
It is the process of collecting particles together by
creating bonds between them. Bonds are formed by
compression or by using a binding agent
particles into physically stronger and larger
agglomerates having good flow property,
better
compression characteristics and uniformity. The art
and science for process and production of
granules is known as Granulation Technology.
Powder To Grains
Before granulation
After granulation
Types of granulation
Dry
granulati
on
Wet
graulat
ion
Wet Granulation
merits
demerit
s
Granulator
The instrument where the process of
granulation take place is called granulator
Granulators are classified on the base of
shear
Shear is mechanical force applied by
instrument
Granulators may be high shear , low shear
or intermediate shear
Granulation Techniques
4)spray drying
Input parameters
Impeller speed : higher the impeller speed
generally denser and smaller granules ,
lower the speed generally more porous and
large particles
Chopper speed : there is no effect of
chopper speed on granules size but in the
case when chopper is large size it act as
secondary impeller
Type of binder
Mechanism
Spray dryer
> Spray dryer is the process has been used
to produce microcapsules , food
ingredients , flavors and various
biotechnological ingredients
>This process differ from others as it isa
continues process
Mechanism
Spray dryer is like a prilling tower but it is
used to produce granules
Hot solution is sprayed through atomizer
from the top
Hot air blown in counter or co current
manner
As water evaporate concentration of
solution increase and granules form
Granules are separated by cyclone
techniques
Advantages
No dust formation
comparison
prilling
In granulation powdered
particles adhere in form of
large particle
It involves use of binder
End product is solid and size is
uniform
No breakage and less caking
tendency
Operation is not simple
screening and cyclone
separator used
It involve process of
agglorimation
Long storage life
granulation
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