Microwave equipment in the pharmaceutical industry is mainly used for drying and sterilizing pills, tablets, powders, granules, extracts of traditional Chinese medicine, extracts, and various oral liquids, as well as equipment for rapid extraction of traditional Chinese medicine.

For a long time, China's pharmaceutical processing industry has adopted traditional heating, drying, and sterilization methods, such as using hot air and far-infrared to dry drugs, and using high temperature and high pressure, cobalt 60, and other sterilization methods. They not only have low thermal efficiency utilization, long heating time, and large footprint, which is not conducive to environmental protection. At the same time, sterilization should be carried out under pressure and at a high temperature of 120 ℃ for 20 to 40 minutes, which will inevitably damage the efficacy and nutritional components of the medicine to a certain extent.

The use of microwave drying and sterilization can fully utilize the characteristics of microwave drying and sterilization, which can solve the drawbacks of traditional heating. Using a carefully designed pill microwave dryer, the processed pills do not crack, have good consistency, maintain their original state, and extend their shelf life.