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A Ploughshare Mixer is often suitable for materials that tend to agglomerate.
Its plough-shaped mixing tools generate intensive circulation of the material, while optional high-speed choppers can break up lumps and agglomerates during mixing.
The final selection should be based on the material characteristics and process requirements.
Vortex mixers are designed for a wide variety of powders, granules, and powder-liquid mixtures.
Typical applications include chemical powders, food ingredients, pharmaceutical powders, animal feed, dry mortar, ceramics, battery materials, fertilizers, pesticides, minerals, refractory materials, and other bulk solids. The actual mixer configuration should be selected according to the physical and chemical properties of the material.
Vortex manufacture a wide range of industrial powder and bulk solids mixing equipment, including:
- Horizontal Ribbon Mixers
- Ploughshare Mixers
- Double Shaft Paddle Mixers (Paddle Mixers / “No-Gravity” Mixers)
- Conical Twin-Screw Mixers
- Vertical Screw Ribbon Mixers
- Double Cone Mixers
- V-Type Mixers
- 3D Motion Mixers
- Customized mixing systems and complete mixing lines
The most suitable mixer depends on your materials, production capacity, mixing ratio, required mixing time, and process conditions.
Mixer capacity should be evaluated using both the total vessel volume and the effective working volume. The required volume depends on material bulk density, batch weight, filling ratio and the mixing principle of the selected machine. A mixer should not normally be filled to its total geometric volume because sufficient space is required for material movement and effective mixing. For this reason, selecting a mixer based only on vessel volume can result in an unsuitable configuration.
The appropriate industrial powder mixer depends on several factors, including:
- Material characteristics
- Bulk density
- Particle size
- Required mixing uniformity
- Batch size or production capacity
- Moisture content
- Whether heating or drying is required
- Whether liquid addition is required
- Required discharge configuration
- Production and automation requirements
Vortex provides different powder mixer designs so that equipment can be selected according to the specific process requirements.
Vortex powder mixer selection depends on several factors, including:
- Material type and characteristics
- Bulk density and particle size
- Material flowability
- Moisture content
- Viscosity
- Mixing ratio
- Batch size or required production capacity
- Whether liquid addition is required
- Required mixing uniformity
- Temperature, pressure, vacuum, or other process requirements
Vortex engineers can recommend a suitable powder mixer based on your material and process requirements.
Yes, We can supply simple stand alone panels or automated PLC controlled systems. We normally install and test all controls on our mixers before they are shipped.
Yes, we normally test the mixers before they are shipped and mark out the wire need to connect on the control box.
We manufacture specialty mixing equipment for powder & bulk materials. Included are ribbon blender, plough mixer, conical screw mixer, twin shaft paddle mixer, V blender, double cone blender and other auxiliary equipment such as screw conveyor, quantitive auger filler.
We sell across the world, our cusotmers distribute 5 continents.
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Ribbon Blender with Chopper for Some Caking Product
Generally speaking, ribbon blender is a kind of mild mixing machine which is widely used in light density powder material. However, if adding some liquid into powder which is easily caking during mixing, ribbon blender is not suitable but adding chopper is a good way to solve this problem.
We have a customer named AB Mauri need one 2000L ribbon blender to mix their nutrition product. AB Mauri Brasil is a market-leading bakery supply company with a well-earned reputation for innovation and reliability.
Product Information:
Raw Material: Flour with liquid additives
Bulk Density: 0.7kg/L
Liquid Additives Percentage: 7%
Flow Ability: Not Good
Caking: Yes
At first, the customer found us for ribbon blender in 2012. The plant manager Mr. Gomez told us that their existing ribbon blender can not get their expected product because the final product is easy caking if adding liquid. So, the customer wanted to ask us for helping them to find a good solution to mix their product.
Through discussion with customer, Vortex designed ribbon blender with three choppers on the side of shell. Considering the position of choppers, double helix ribbon is not suitable for it. So, we special design disconnected ribbon agitator to avoid ribbon meet chopper blade but we must care about the material movement action through disconnect ribbon in order to have convection movement principle inside the mixer.
Furthermore, in order to get better liquid spraying effect, we put liquid spraying nozzle toward chopper which can break caking effectively. The customer controls the liquid adding quantity by dosing pump.
At last, we design scraper for two end sides to let product easily move into middle and don’t stay at two end plates.
Before delivery, the customer came and took material to our factory for inspection the ribbon blender we manufactured. The result witnessed that the ribbon blender with chopper we designed can fully solve the problem that customer meet. This mixer has been used for 2 years and help customer lift production capacity and they are considering to get one more mixer in near future.
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