What is a drum flaker used for?

Drum flaker
The drum flaker is primarily used to produce flakes, but there are also ways of converting your product into easily manageable pastilles or flakes.

What is the working principle of Druk flaker?

The molten liquid is cooled on the cooling drum and after a partial revolution; the cooled and solidified product is removed by a scraper in the form of flakes or film. The cooling drum of the flaker is specially designed to provide an even cooling effect by having uniform and effective internal distribution.
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What is a Drum flaker machine?

A flake ice machine works by freezing water inside a metal cylinder and allowing the frozen liquid to flow through the coils.

How Flake Ice Machine Works?

The flaking machine is designed to turn the oil materials into flakes, by means of mechanical extruding force.

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What is the capacity of drum flaker?
Capacity: 100 kg/hr to 4000 kg/hr.
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What is a flaker in chemical industry?

A flaker is a machine that reduces materials like cereal grain, fish, soap, or ice into flakes. Flakers can also refer to people who make flint flakes or flaked stone tools, or workers who prepare fish for drying by placing them on flakes.

Flaking machines can work in a variety of ways, depending on the material being processed:

Druk Flaker Applications

Chemicals

  • Fatty acids
  • Oleochemicals
  • Phtalic anhydride
  • PEG
  • Maleic anhydride
  • Calcium chloride
  • Caprolactam
  • Resins
  • Bisphenol A
  • Sulphur,
  • Pharmaceutical applications: stearate, soap

Food

  • Cheese
  • Chocolate
  • Dough
  • Vegetables

General process description

With the drum flaker, a molten product is converted into a solid form. In a continuous process, a thin layer of the liquid product adheres to the outside of the rotating drum. The product solidifies upon contact with the drum’s outer surface, that is internally cooled. Heat is transferred from the product and the required final temperature is reached. After the drum has turned through almost a full revolution, the product is removed from its surface by a knife scraper. In the process, the product is comminuted to easily manageable flakes, which are checked for shape and size depending on the product’s nature and the process conditions. The drum flaker can be supplied in various versions.

Dip feed

For products with low viscosity and good adhesion properties a drum flaker with dip pan is used. In this type of drum flaker, the rotating drum runs continuously through the heated melt in the dip pan underneath the drum. Owing to the internal cooling of the drum, the melt solidifies on the drum surface. As it rotates, the drum also picks up a quantity of liquid product, which also soon cools and solidifies.

Overhead applicator roll

For product with poor adhesion properties and moderate to high viscosities, the overhead applicator roll is used. In this system, a heated applicator roll is positioned above the cooling drum. The melt can be easily fed via the trough-shaped nip between the applicator roll and the cooling drum. Contact with the hot applicator roll ensures that the product remains liquid. During production the product flows via the trough nip to the cold cooling drum and adheres to the drum surface. This operation allows flake shape and thickness to be precisely controlled. A knife then scrapes the solidified product from the drum.

Scraper  in many designs

The scraper drum flaker of have a robust design, provide uniform pressure distribution of the drum’s entire length and thus eliminate vibrations. The knife pressure can by easily adjusted by means of a pneumatic /mechanical pressing system that is mounted outside the casing. A selection of knife materials is available, ranging from steel to plastics. The material chosen depends on the product to be processed. The flake size can be determined in advance by the choice of the scraper system.