• Maximum quality of dried products
• Best aroma retention
• Flexibility of production
• Selective process
• Batch or continuous process

Bucher Zeodration systems are designed for drying a wide range of products such as herbal and plant extracts, fruits, vegetables, herbs, bacteria and for the food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry.
Bucher Zeodration technology offers a drying solution for liquid or solid products down to a residual moisture content of less than 0.5%. This process is successfully used for temperature sensitive products and to achieve maximum product quality.

The Bucher Zeodration system uses Zeolite reactors to trap the water or solvent. Zeolite is crystallised clay with a pore diameter of 4 Angstroms (water molecule are 3 Angstroms). Its properties, combined with polarity factors lead to a selective moisture trap which under operating pressure conditions retains water only.
Because of a very low partial pressure at the water adsorption a maximum reduction of lost volatile molecules through the vacuum system is achieved, thus maintaining most of the flavours in the product.

While using Bucher Zeodration with vacuum driers the same product quality can be achieved than with freeze drying systems. Due to an integrated and cyclic regeneration of the Zeolite the full adsorption capacity is maintained.

The application of zeolite reactors offers interesting features as it permits a drying operation in the pressure range of 0.5–10 mbar (range limit to freeze drying).

Zeodration can be combined with a Bucher vacuum cabinet dryer for batch production or a Bucher vacuum belt dryer for continuous production.