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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 for an Organic Dyestuff Customer
Lonsen Group is the leading dyestuff manufacturer around the world which accounts for nearly 21% of world shares. Vortex got an order from Lonsen invested in India plant in 2012.
The customer need ribbon blender for organic dyestuff with 0.6 density and 3 ton capacity per batch. The process is feeding raw material through screw conveyor into ribbon blender and discharge with SWECO vibrator before final package. Vortex designed 8000L total volume ribbon blender with stainless steel 316L construction for material contact part, WAM brand screw conveyor with 250mm diameter to conveyor raw material, SWECO brand vibrator to get fine final product before package. Let’s explain in detail as following about this dyestuff mixing line:
A. Screw Conveyor
The customer just want manual feeding from 1000L feeding hopper into screw conveyor to transport raw material into ribbon mixer. We choose U type screw conveyor with top lid cover in order to make easy clean in daily work. The speed of shaft needn’t very fast to match manual feeding speed.
B. Ribbon Blender
The Mixer is the most important part in this product line. Considering the capacity is not very big, we chose ribbon blender to instead of conical mixer because the working efficiency, mixing time is faster than conical mixer. However, dyes is a kind of product which is easy to absorb moisture. So, we must keep the minimum clearance between ribbon and vessel wall. If we make clearance big, the material will be stick on vessel and many residues stay inside the mixer. Not only control the clearance, but also we must need mixer start after loading to avoid the product mixing too long time to absorb moisture. At last, we add scraper on the ribbon and vibration motor on the vessel for option.
C. Discharge
At the discharge part, vibrator is necessary to get fine and similar size product before package. So, Vortex chose SEWCO brand vibrator at the bottom of discharge door with outlets for manual package.
This project was installed and commissioned in 2013. The customer is happy with Vortex Ribbon Blender’s performance. The manager Wang said that this is Lonsen’s first step to enter India market and they will put much effort to enlarge their product line to get more benefit and market percentage in South Asia.
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