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How to remove dust from tablets?

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1. When operating tablet press on the desktop is produced dust. This may be due to fine dispersion of starting powder when powder dust enters through the gap between die and punch. Or feeder (carriage that feeds powder into matrix) is not bear against to the surface of press. Anyway, presence of dust on tablets quite common. Large rotary presses of high price range have included built-in vacuum cleaners which collect dust from the pressing area. Such presses have flaps made ​​of transparent plastic, which are airtight close from four sides. Within press is created vacuum and vacuum cleaner pulls dust with the possibility of collecting and subsequent use in compression.

2. The presence of dust on tablets adversely affects in following cases: Tablet coating. In the presence of dust on tablets film-forming layer adheres poorly. Spoils the appearance of shell. Packing in transparent containers (blister packaging or plastic bottles). A large amount of dust can clog sensors of packaging and filling machines, which violates their normal work.br>
3. Methods of removing dust from tablets or dust removal. All existing models of dedusters are connected to a special or household vacuum cleaner. Some models of tablets dedusters have a connection of compressed air which blows the layer of dust from tablets and vacuum cleaner removes this stream of dusty air. The most efficient models have plastic brushes which polish and overturn tablets during air blowing flow and dust removing by vacuum cleaner. As well models are divided on productivity. In any case, possible to choose the optimal deduster of tablets with the required characteristics.
  
  

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