Symrise – Spray Dryer Expansion

Precis performed mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection design and energy modeling for construction of a new 15,000-sf building for Symrise, a company that develops, produces, and sells fragrance, flavoring, and food ingredients. The facility in Branchburg, New Jersey, houses a new GEA FSD-100 spray dryer system and associated slurry prep unit, regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO), and clean-in-place (CIP) skid.

Materials are manually weighed and delivered into the slurry prep room where the various ingredients are made into an emulsion slurry mixture utilizing two super sacks for ingredients. The slurry is then pumped into jacketed holding tanks before being pumped up to the top level of the spray dryer to a small holding tank and then into the GEA FSD-100. The finished, spray-dried product is conveyed from the outlet on the ground floor into the pack-out room where the finished product is packaged. The boxes are stacked on pallets and delivered to the warehouse for shipping. The emulsion prep system, slurry holding tanks, and spray dryer are cleaned using the CIP system. Exhaust from the spray dryer passes through the GEA-supplied and installed wet scrubber on the top floor. Exhaust flow from the scrubber is further treated through an RTO.