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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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The application of heat jacket on vortex mixer
500L Jacket type Conical Screw Mixer
Vortex mixer the process requirement for mixer, some materials need to be heated and others need to be cooled. But how to achieve these process on mixer? We shall design and fabricate jacket on mixer. No matter ribbon blender, plough shear mixer, conical mixer and paddle mixer, the jacket is all fabricated at outside of vessel. This is widely used on mixers and there are some technical things need to be clarified with customer before design and manufacturing. So, we would like to discuss more details in jacket and what we should get to know from customers.
Before starting design, the mixer company shall make following questions clear from customer:
Basic Knowledge of mixing process and mixing product
- What’s the product to be mixed in mixer?
- What’s the process during mixing?
- What’s the moisture of raw material and what’s the moisture that customer need for final product?
- How’s the flow ability and viscosity of raw material?
- Is there any physical or chemical reaction during mixing?
We must get to know above questions clear before design because the mixing progress is complex during heating mixing for drying. Particularly for drying progress, the status of mixed material is different. Most product is from paste to more sticky to semi-dried to dry powder. At middle stage, it need much and strong power for drive unit to run the mixing agitator slowly. The torque is even double or triple than first and final stage. Furthermore, the middle stage also takes long time to make material dried. So, having full knowledge and information about product from customer is very important for us to design drive unit and choose a right mixer.
Jacket Applications
According to different process applications, the jacket could be divided into heating jacket and cooling jacket. According to the working medium in jacket, the jacket could be whole jacket, dimple jacket and coil jacket. What we shall to know before jacket design and choosing is as following.
- What’s the working medium in jacket? (Generally speaking, the working medium could be cooling water, hot water, hot oil and steam)
- What’s the working and design pressure in jacket? (According to ASME standard, the design pressure is 1.3 times than working design.
Typical Products Application
- Starch (modified starch)
- Plastics
- Stearic
- Ca Soap
- Food Powder with moisture
- Resin
- Slurry
- Rubber and Cable
Mixer Choosing
Looking from drying result, ploughshare mixer and conical mixer has a better drying result than ribbon blender and paddle mixer because their heating exchange of jacket is higher than ribbon blender. We shall also make jacket on cover of ribbon blender because the fabrication cost is much higher.
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