freeze drying
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freeze drying
[′frēz ‚drī·iŋ] (engineering)
A method of drying materials, such as certain foods, that would be destroyed by the loss of volatile ingredients or by drying temperatures above the freezing point; the material is frozen under high vacuum so that ice or other frozen solvent will quickly sublime and a porous solid remain.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The addition of the new
lyophilizer will allow Jubilant more flexibility to service current and new customers as demand for lyophilization services increase over the coming years.
The worldwide demand for laboratory
lyophilizers was more than $60 million in 2007 and should continue to grow at 6% to 7% annually.
For this reason, many manufacturers of aseptic lyophilized drugs will refrain from freezing the shelves inside the
lyophilizer, and will pump in sterile air in place of a vacuum or inert gas.
The full system consists of the SA25 Aseptic Filling Work-cell, Accumulator and
Lyophilizer Loader.
Also, the new production-scale
lyophilizer will more than triple the facility's lyophilization capacity by late 2014.
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