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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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Flavor Develops Along with the Development of Plough Mixer
Plough Mixer and spices has been developed for thousands of years all over the world, beginning when people used simple herbs or spices to flavor their food and dishes. Today, the flavor industry is comprised of hundreds of companies all over the world. And the booming of flavor industry can not be separated from the development of plough mixer.
Flavors were not always created and developed by flavorists for consumer satisfaction. Spices, herbs and flavors were used throughout history by numerous cultures for various reasons. In prehistoric times, herbs and spices were used to enhance the flavor of food. In the Middle Ages, flavors and spices were used to preserve meats prior to the use of refrigeration. Early Egyptians are known for flavoring food with drill, cumin, marjoram, coriander, sesame, thyme and even cinnamon. They also used honey as a sweetening agent. People in Europe and the Middle East discovered how to distill and extract essential oils and resins. Even in medieval times, monks captured these essences and used them to flavor food.
Regardless of the use for spice, the flavor and spice industry has always been driven by demand. The quest for spice and flavors was one of the earliest drivers of globalization. As one of the first globally traded products, spices were extremely expensive worldwide. And the development of mixing equipment hurry its step.
Plough shear mixer is widely used for different kinds of applications such as flavors mixing, coating, drying and reaction with very high homogeneity. Working principle of plough shear mixer: Plough shovel welded or bolted on arms and the shaft runs at a high speed to effect flavors a fluidizing action, furthermore, the choppers reduce the size of particles of flavors to result a mixing action. With the development of mixing machinery, flavor industry gets booming.
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