Your powder, your liquid – your process

We`ed like to indroduce our Company Synva GmbH

Since 2015, Synva GmbH has been an industrial service provider specializing in field device consulting. As a consulting, project planning, and sales office, we primarily support the processes of the pharmaceutical and chemical industries – including on-site support. Synva GmbH offers its customers extensive empirical expertise and makes this available to the market for existing and new projects. At the heart of our work is the functional success of process engineering plants in connection with:

• containment applications for the most demanding processes
• and high-end industrial measurement technology

In collaboration with our customers, we provide process-oriented support for new process engineering approaches to existing plants, including:

• feasibility studies
• measurement series under laboratory conditions
• and commissioning

Processes under containment conditions; OEB 5 – without dust extraction

As the authorized representative of ZERMEC Pharma AG, Synva GmbH primarily advises on and brokers containment interface technology. We contribute to safe powder transfer between processing machines and mobile containers worldwide.To this end, Synva GmbH advise ZERMEC Containment Valves (ZCV) in sizes DN 65 to DN 250 in various configurations. The ZCV already implements the SMEPAC range OEB 5 as standard – without additional dust extraction!

The scope of delivery for the ZCV always forms a complete unit, tailored to individual customer and process requirements! The focus of our work is the actuation and the necessary integration of the valve into the process. Combined with appropriate locking units, the ZCV can be actuated via either

• a pneumatic actuatoror
• or a manual lever actuator

Our consulting profile for containment valve systems is further defined by additional core competencies. These include:

• pneumatic controls
• product compensators in DN 65 to DN 250
• various WIP-Hood cleaning systems
• and handling aids

Fluid and powder handling – measuring and controlling

Synva also consults on RF impedance sensors and their designs. For the processing of critical powders, optimized process technology is often the only viable option.

RF impedance sensors significantly reduce the process engineering effort. They are capable of measuring various capacitive states, even with slightly different media! Due to their complex physical properties, powders and granules are among the most critical media that must be controlled within a process. For example, some low-density powders have liquid-like properties and are highly adhesive!

RF Impedance Sensors for Powders and Granules

RF impedance sensors can measure virtually any change in the capacitance surrounding them. This is because almost any immediate change in capacitance at the active sensor body alters the measurement frequency and thus the stored output signal of the RF impedance sensor – SYNVA therefore offers an indirect unique selling point in its frequency-capacitance function! For example, with powders, it is possible to detect limit levels and control the fill level even though the powder

• has a very low specific gravity (N/m³)
• and/or a low weight (g/cm³)

This is just one example of what can be controlled using RF impedance sensors.

RF Impedance Sensors for Liquids and Foams

Before a powder is “dried into a powder,” the base product is usually liquid in the preceding process! This applies, for example, to pharmaceutical active ingredients or chemical reagents.

The use of RF impedance sensors is crucial wherever liquid media, for example, change their concentration, form a foam, or tend to undergo latent phase inversion within a separating layer. Therefore, RF impedance sensors are also highly justified for use with fluid media. SYNVA sales RF impedance sensors up to 100 bar and 200°C for, among other things:

• foam detection
  • even with sticky and non-conductive foam
• interface level
  • even with phase inversion, MULM layer, or adhering media
• concentration
  • among other things up to 1,000 ppm water in the organic liquids

We are able to do this, because Synva individually engineers the necessary sensors to match the required process and has them manufactured by certified companies. Measurements are taken exactly where they should measure – nothing is filtered out or calculate out by the control system. The RF impedance sensors are adapted to the existing or required process technology – and not the other way around!…and; Synva only supports to inquiries with a sales quote that we are confident will “work!” Upon request, we verify this by taking measurements under laboratory conditions directly at the end user’s site and also provide after-sales support for initial commissioning in the field!

Ask us, SYNVA GmbH – Profit from the very beginning!