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Efficient recovery of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) or final product formulations (FPFs) after a spray dryer can be quite challenging, depending on the particle size. The same problem occurs in many milling and micronization applications.

The preferred way to recover these sensitive and expensive products is with cyclone collectors due to their direct and sanitary powder capture. Unlike bag filters or wet scrubbers, cyclones minimize filter or product contamination and product cross contamination and can easily handle a wide range of operating temperature, pressure and moisture conditions.

Product losses due to cyclones' low efficiency represent a high cost. Cyclones need to be complemented with expensive second and third stage filters that do not allow for product recovery. Even for a few applications where the losses may not be so costly (less expensive products), they are not environmentally and socially responsible, with waste management being an additional problem to tackle.

Client needs a cyclone system that maximizes powder yield, and is also easy and fast to clean and disinfect to allow for fast batch turnover.

ACS solutions for high efficiency cyclones dramatically reduce losses and achieve great efficiency, even for very fine inhalable products. These can be equipped with state-of-the-art CIP, insulation and heat tracing. All models are tailor optimized and designed by our team to meet the client's requirements for each installation.

Advanced Cyclone Systems, S.A. (ACS) is a company exclusively dedicated to the development and commercialization of high efficiency cyclone systems, worldwide.
The company works in a very close cooperation with its clients in order to design custom made cyclone systems that really solve their unmet needs.
ACS has grown to be a turnkey project provider in any part of the world, whenever cyclones are part of the solution.

Applications Include
· Particulate Matter (PM) Emission Control in boilers, furnaces and dryers and general dedusting;
· Product (powder) Recovery in the chemical, food and pharmaceutical industries.

In multiple industries stated below, products are manufactured in the powder form. Examples go from milk powders to pharmaceuticals and from fertilizers to nano-particles. The separation of these products from the air after processes such as drying or milling is unavoidable. Multiple industrial filtration systems can be used for that purpose.
Cyclones have the advantage of easily handling a wide range of operating temperatures, pressures and moisture conditions, unlike other dust collectors, e.g. bag filters. By its simple and aseptic design, without any moving parts, cyclones have very low maintenance costs and can be easily and effectively cleaned, minimizing bacteria contamination or product cross contamination.

ACS cyclones can be designed both to increase product yield and to comply with strict particle emission limits, frequently exempting the use of other filters downstream.