Abstract: The present invention is a process of manufacture of one or more polysaccharide beads, comprising generating an aerosol of an aqueous polysaccharide solution, cooling the droplets of said aerosol in air to initiate gelling thereof and collecting droplets as gelled beads in a liquid or on a surface, characterised by adding a hydrophilic vapour pressure-lowering agent to said polysaccharide solution.

Abstract: The invention refers to a method of controlling the porosity of porous spherical particles produced from a polysaccharide dissolved in a solvent, in which it can be gelled. The polysaccharide solution is finely divided by mechanical means into spherical droplets which are allowed to pass through a humid atmosphere and transferred to a capturing medium while controlling the temperature and humidity of humid atmosphere.

Abstract: Method and device for continuously producing a coherent layer of a liquid/melt of even thickness by means of centrifugal action along the entire periphery of a rotating disk (13, 113), liquid/melt being supplied to the disk around its entire axis of rotation from means (12, 112) and leaving the disk as individual droplets. The means (12, 112) distributing the liquid/melt onto the disk (13, 113) has according to the invention essentially the same speed and direction of rotation as the disk, and the liquid/melt undergoes under the influence of centrifugal action circumferentially a spreading and change in velocity across the disk (13, 113) in contact with the same.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for dividing a liquid into droplets is disclosed. One or several disks (35) rotate about an axis (A) and are provided, at their outer peripheral edges, with circumferentially equidistant, uniform cusps. A distributing device (20) is adapted to distribute the liquid uniformly and circumferentially on the disks (35), whereby the liquid discharged onto the disks (35) is formed into a uniform thickness film which spreads radially outwardly towards the cusps (36) and is divided thereby into uniform size droplets. The distributing device (20) may comprise a dosing container (21) which is rotationally independent of the disks (30) and from which the liquid is dosed through one or several dosing openings (26) onto the disk or disks (35), the disks (35) preferably being rotated relative to the dosing openings (26).