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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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New Ways to Improve Ribbon Blender Efficiency
Ribbon blender – this versatile and highly ubiquitous mixing equipment are available from spice blends, beverage mixer, seasonings blends, drink mixes, and multivitamins to cosmetic powder, polymer blends, chemical additives, plastic, and agricultural powders, which is a reliable method for solid-solid blending is at the core of production and the ribbon blender is a popular choice due to its efficiency and economy.
A ribbon blender consists of a U-shaped horizontal shell and an agitator made up of inner and outer helical ribbons that are pitched to move material axially and radially. Ribbon blenders are offered with optional features like heating/cooling jacket, vacuum capability, interchangeable paddle agitator, lump-breakers, sanitary finish, and even wetted parts constructed from special alloys. More recently, new features have become available that are designed to maximize efficiency, blend consistency, and productivity. As your blender manufacturer about the following options:
- Scrapers welded to the spokes and ribbons. Scrapers having a close tolerance (around 1/8 in.) to the end walls significantly reduce the amount of materials that might tend to pack in the blender’s outermost areas. ‘Radiused’ trough corners further eliminate any dead spaces in the product zone.
- Clear view cover and shaft guard. The multi-piece cover is equipped with multiple ports for ingredient additions, lights, spray system, venting, and vacuum, which significantly increase ease of use and worker safety. Operators can safely monitor the content of the blender and charge raw materials while the agitator are running. Without the need to stop agitation and open the covers at multiple intervals, cycle time is therefore optimized and unnecessary dusting issues are prevented.
- Air-purged mechanical shaft seal. Special seal arrangements such as air-purged mechanical shaft seals eliminates the risk of product leakage, preventing premature bearing or drive failure and shaft wear.
Air purging creates a higher pressure inside the seal cavity, creating an air barrier that helps keeps material inside the trough and adds to the life of the wearable parts of the seal. - Pneumatically-operated spherical dis valve. This type valve provides a large opening and minimizes dead space. Discharge connections can be customized to perfectly mate with your downstream material handling system.
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