Patent ID: 8435023

Claim:
A device for producing and treating pellets made of plastic material, the device comprising a granulation device for granulating a melt of the plastic material to form pellets, the pellets being coolable in a cooling fluid, and a separation device for separating the pellets from the cooling fluid, and a crystallization device for crystallizing the pellets, wherein, a diverting device, which is connected to an intermediate storage, is situated between the separation device and the crystallization device, the diverting device being controllable by a control unit configured to at least monitor the crystallization device during crystallization of the pellets in the crystallization device, such that, in the case of a disturbance of the crystallization device, the pellets are supplied to the intermediate storage and, once the disturbance has been removed, the pellets temporarily stored in the intermediate storage may be supplied to the crystallization device, wherein the controller is configured to monitor the pellets inside the crystallizer while monitoring.