摘要 |
There is described a plant and a method for producing an agglomerated powder of a milk product or a milk-like product, wherein a concentrated liquid feed of the product is atomized by an atomizer in a drying chamber, the fine particles are recirculated to the wet zone around this atomizer to perform an agglomeration of the product and the resulting agglomerates are accommodated in an internal fluid bed in the drying chamber, characterized in that the agglomerates then are transferred from the internal fluid bed to a fluidized layer in an external fluid bed and the fine particles are transferred to a separating device and splitted up by this into a first and second fraction, whereafter only the first of the fractions is recirculated to the wet zone around the atomizer in the drying chamber while the second one is led to the external fluid bed, where water, by another atomizer, is atomized over the fluidized layer of agglomerates to perform a further agglomeration of the product. |