Looking for food-grade spray dryer (or spray drying service) for short term use

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Hey all,
Wondering if anyone has a food-grade spray dryer (or offers spray drying service) that we could use within the next month or so? We will need ~10L capacity. We're located in Vancouver, BC so if there is anything on the west coast that would be ideal!
Thanks for any suggestions,
Erin

Erin Gilchrist (she/her)
Manager, Scientific Affairs
Renaissance BioScience Corp.
egilchrist@renaissancebioscience.com

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Thanks @Lavina Gully for tagging me. @Erin Gilchrist : Dr. Husnik already reached out to us.

We have very active research on both spray dryer and fermentation. Our Buchi B-290 spray dryer recently broke, but is being repaired. In the meantime we are using another spray dryer in Chemical Engineering. We are also gauging interest for partnership with someone to bring a small industrial-scale spray dryer (50-100 kg/hr drying capacity) to our UBC Food and Beverage Innovation Center. We also have many kinds of ongoing fermentation studies ongoing including enzymatic fermentation, solid state fermentation, lactic acid fermentation, fermentation for bio fortification, cellular agriculture fermentation etc. as well setting up a 1000 L microbrewery in the new Food and Beverage Innovation Center.

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Hello Anubhav, We have a buchi and pilot scale spray dryer in our pilot plants at the Guelph Food Innovation Centre (GFIC) . If you don't mind sending samples such a long way we could certainly process them for you.

Please reach out if this is something you would like to discuss (dvella@uoguelph.ca).


Derek Vella
Guelph Food Innovation Centre (GFIC)
University of Guelph
ON

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Hey Anubhav,
Thanks for your response and I'm glad you have been talking to John. We are definitely interested in having some of this equipment on campus. Let me know if you want to chat.
Erin
 
Erin Gilchrist, Ph.D. (she/her)
Manager, Scientific Affairs
Renaissance BioScience Corp.
411-2389 Health Sciences Mall | Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3 | Canada
I respectfully acknowledge that I live, work, and play on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ.
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Thanks so much Lavina!

Erin Gilchrist, Ph.D. (she/her)
Manager, Scientific Affairs
Renaissance BioScience Corp.
411-2389 Health Sciences Mall | Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3 | Canada
I respectfully acknowledge that I live, work, and play on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ.


On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 12:39 PM Lavina Gully via Canadian Food Innovation Network <Mail@cfin-rcia.ca> wrote:
UBC's Food Process Engineering Lab has a spray dryer listed. fpel.landfood.ubc.ca/equipment-services @Anubhav Pratap-Singh  GFR Pharma Home...
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UBC's Food Process Engineering Lab has a spray dryer listed.

fpel.landfood.ubc.ca/equipment-services

@Anubhav Pratap-Singh 

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UBC's Food Process Engineering Lab has a spray dryer listed.

https://fpel.landfood.ubc.ca/equipment-services/

@Anubhav Pratap-Singh

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Trusted manufacturer of nutritionally superior plant-based ingredients and the leader in Canadian contract spray drying services We are a trusted manufacturer and supplier of superior plant-based, clean-label ingredients to leading world-wide brands with the ability to act flexibly and promptly to changing customer supply needs.
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Wondering if the CAFA asset map might provide some information to help with your request. I've copied the information below from an e-mail I received from them -

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Although not close to you, both Saksatchewan Food Development Centre and Guelph Food & Technology Centre have this capacity.

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Food Grade Dryer:

We can possibly help you directly or at minimum point you in the right direction.

Some preliminary questions about the application...

What product are you drying?
What water evaporation rate (in pounds/kg's per hour) do you desire?
What particle size do you desire?
How will you be packing the finished product?

Please advise.

Thank you.

Jack Crowley

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Yes thanks Dana! I've been in touch with both of them and they do offer the services we are looking for. The response to my question has been really great.

Erin Gilchrist, Ph.D. (she/her)
Manager, Scientific Affairs
Renaissance BioScience Corp.
411-2389 Health Sciences Mall | Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3 | Canada
I respectfully acknowledge that I live, work, and play on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ.


On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 5:48 AM Dana McCauley via Canadian Food Innovation Network <Mail@cfin-rcia.ca> wrote:
Although not close to you, both Saksatchewan Food Development Centre and Guelph Food & Technology Centre have this capacity. -------------------...
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Although not close to you, both Saksatchewan Food Development Centre and Guelph Food & Technology Centre have this capacity.

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Hi Erin,

I've run yeast based products through the spray drier at Agri-Food Discovery Place (AFPD) located at the University of Alberta. The spray drier is very much in the correct scale for your project.

Niro Mobile Minor 2000 Spray Dryer - Agri-Food Discovery Place (ualberta.ca)

Reach out to Ross Lowe: rlowe@ualberta.ca

I am happy to make that introduction.

Good luck!
Matt