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US 11,535,811 B2Granted
System for recovery of waste gel-mass from softgel manufacturing process
AssigneeR.P. Scherer Technologies, LLC
InventorsLester David Fulper, Werner Stange, Norton Richard Hart, Shawn P. McKee, Neftali Tosado
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Abstract
A system for recovering gel-mass from a gel-mass-containing waste material. The system includes mangle rolls, a heated accumulator for receiving and melting the gel-mass-containing waste material to provide an oil phase and a non-oil phase; a pumping system; an optional mixer; and a control system.
Claims18
A system for recovering gel-mass from a gel-mass-containing waste material generated by an encapsulation process, the system comprising:
- (a) mangle rolls to retrieve the gel-mass-containing waste material from said encapsulation process;
- (b) a heated accumulator for receiving and melting the gel-mass-containing waste material recovered in step (a) under conditions that provide an oil phase and a non-oil phase of said molten waste material;
- (c) a displacement liquid system for providing an oil-phase miscible displacement liquid to the heated accumulator to facilitate melting and separation of air and the oil phase and non-oil phase;
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- (d) at least one pump for transporting the non-oil phase from the heated accumulator to a location to be combined with fresh encapsulating material to provide a combined encapsulating material for use in encapsulating additional product from a same lot of the product encapsulated in the encapsulation process;
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- (e) a controller for controlling the system for recovering the gel-mass.
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