3. Components

The equipment available on the market allows great flexibility in the operation of the zeodration process:

• selection of the type of zeolite ;

• vacuum level adjustment ;

• product temperature control ;

• rate of evaporation or sublimation ;

• manual or automatic operation, depending on the specific characteristics of the products to be processed.

A zeodration system generally consists of the following components (figure 7 ):

• a temperature control system....