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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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Conical Screw Blender for Powders
Conical Screw blender is used for mixing and blending powders in the following industries: chemicals, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, food, cosmetics, and plastics. Conical screw processors can be supplied in carbon steel, stainless steel, and other exotic alloys. The conical blender has a tapered screw was standard construction. The tapered screw is more efficient than the straight screw. This design reduces the total overall height, decreases the blending time, and improves the efficiency of the mixer.
Pictured is 3000L conical screw mixer is ideal for mixing a wide range of applications, such as powders, granules, pellets, fibers, pastes, and slurries. This this type of mixing equipment features a slow-turning auger screw that gently lifts batch materials upward as it orbits around a conical vessel. Materials carried to the top of batch then cascade slowly back down into regions opposite the moving auger screw. The conical screw mixer also available for vacuum feeding and vacuum drying function. Vacuum feeder equipping on top of the mixer employed to transport the materials.
A common issue in agitated dryers is the risk of product attrition or generation of fines. This concern is well minimized in a conical mixer/dryer because the blending action is thorough but low impact. During the drying cycle, hot water, oil, or steam is recirculated through the vessel jacket. Due to lower processing temperatures made possible by vacuum environment, there is a reduced risk of creating hot spots on the vessel walls where product could bake. The constant exchange of materials between heated sidewalls and the center of blender accelerates the drying process.
In summary, the conical screw mixer is an ideal design could be fit where space on the plant floor is at a minimum. And it’s gentle blending action is ideal for friable or shear sensitives powders.
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