What is API Equipment?
API Equipment is a necessary instrument for manufacturing APIs, and API Equipment includes several different types.
reactor
A reactor is a vessel made of metal due to its ability to resist corrosion, degradation and reactions with the products inside. It also contains accessories such as temperature monitoring systems, gauges and various indicators. Their main purpose is to monitor manufacturing processes and internal chemicals. Reactors are primarily used to carry out reactions between chemicals by mixing a liquid chemical with another liquid or a liquid chemical with a solid. Some reactors are equipped with motor-driven agitators or mixers for the mixing process.
One of the features of these reactors is a temperature control system that provides specific temperatures. Because, in API manufacturing, certain chemicals require specific temperatures to react and produce the desired results.
filter
Filtration equipment is used to separate impurities from products. Examples of impurities include starting materials, reagents, catalysts and by-products.
Filtration passes a liquid through a filtration assembly containing the required filter. As liquid passes through the filter, the filter media retains impurities. The size of the impurities that can be filtered out depends on the capacity of the filter.
drying
Drying is the method of removing water or moisture from liquid substances after the filtration process. Drying is performed because some APIs are used in solid form and must be converted from liquid to solid.
The design or drying must be optimized so that the residual material contains the exact ratio of moisture to solid matter.
crystallizer
A crystallizer is a device that converts solid particles into crystal form. The main reason for the crystallization process is that most solid particles have low solubility in water, which can cause difficulties in the drug manufacturing process. Convert solid forms into crystals to cope with this difficulty.
Crystallization occurs when a product solution is mixed with solvents or chemicals to change its pH or solubility.
Package
Packaging is the final stage of API manufacturing, where the final API product is packaged in packaging materials. The most common packaging material is barrels because the API is required and supplied in large quantities, and barrels can be easily supplied.
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