Introduction

A Double Cone Blender can be an optimum machine in the industries where safe hygienic and even mixing of powders is a mandatory requirement. The blender is highly effective at mixing free flowing of dry powders, consisting of granules with gentle tumbling effect. Whether testing pharmaceuticals and food processing, chemicals, cosmetics, or even nutraceuticals it is a mixer that produces blends that other mixers cannot achieve without evoking the combination of heat and sheer stress around them. This paper will be about the capabilities and features and benefits of the INCMachine Double Cone Blender. 

What is a Double Cone Blender?

A Double Cone Blender is made of two conical containers with an identical shape that are joined at their bottom part to provide a symmetrical shaped double cone. This is a vessel rotating around a horizontal axis which makes material inside to sloshes.

 Each turn separates and reoils the powder under the attraction of gravity thereby performing a uniform mixing. The uniform distribution of the blends is obtained in the design model without the use of agitator’s baffles or the internal blades. 

The Mechanics of Double Cone Blender

 

The material is charged into the vessel via a charging port and is usually loaded to between one third and two thirds of the vessel capacity. The motor turns the whole double cone very slowly at a throttled low rate and is usually between 5 and 25 rpm depending on material and batch size. The powder has a cascading diffusion dispersed down the top angled walls with the rotation of the cone.

 This falling action guarantees that every particle keeps passing across the several layers within the vessel producing diffusion and convective mixing without producing any heat or shear. The material is emptied through the butterfly valve or ported slide after a set cycle time–usually about 10 minutes but can be changed–is reached. 

 

Specifications of the INCMachine Double Cone Blender 

Gentle Tumbling Movement 

The blender applies low shear tumbling to maintain the integrity of the particles thus it is applicable to fragile or heat sensitive / friable materials.  

Geometry Double Cone 

The symmetry of the conic form has no dead spaces and allows mixing axially. It has vessels whereby every portion of the blend is handled evenly. 

 

Stainless Steel Building 

They are made with carbon steel or stainless steel SS304 SS316L, the interior surfaces are polished, hygienic, and meet cGMP, FDA, and food grade specifications).

 

Range of Capacity 

They have a variety of sizes (laboratory size of about 5 litres) up to industrial sizes of over 30000 litres which can be scaled up and down between pilot and full production. 

 

Liquid Spray and Vac Option 

Optional spray nozzles allow liquid additives or liquids to be dosed. Indeed, control of humidity or inert atmosphere processing is possible by vacuum or nitrogen purge options. 

 

CIP / Easy Cleaning Ports 

The butterfly valves and the fast access covers are in loading and discharge ports. Clean in place or manual wash down is implemented by smooth interior design 

Having control systems Automated 

PLC control timers’ interlocks and variable speed drives are features that aid in batch modes of automation and accurate control of mixing.

Industrial Uses 

 

Pharmaceutical Industry 

In tablet or capsule formulation: used to blend APIs and excipients. The rotating mechanism maintains the evenness of potency and stops destruction of the degradation.

 

Nutraceuticals and Food 

The best location would be mixing spices baking mixes powdered beverages vitamin supplements and herbal powders and have high hygienic and consistency strive.

 

Chemical Industry 

Mixtures of pigments fertilizers fine chemicals catalysts polymers and other granular powers where it is important to mix them when consistency is required. 

 

Cosmetic and Personal care 

To mix talcum powders, abc pigments, powdered foundations, and other dry cosmetic blends in which texture maintenance is a factor.

 

Animal Feed and Nutraceuticals 

Blend nutraceutical powders feed additives or specialty powders where the consistency of dosage is assured and where better handling features are assured.

 

Usage of Double Cone Blender Benefits 

 

Homogenous Mixing 

 Symmetry and managed tumbling accommodate concurrent blend uniformity with blend changes usually not even 2 percent. 

 

Minimum product degradation 

There are no internal blades or agitators, so any mechanical effects on powders are minimal to maintain particle size, and morphology.

 

Energy Economics Operation 

Mixes using the assist of gravity and low rpm motors that do not use as much energy as high shear mixers.

 

Facile Loading and Off-loading 

The giant charging ports and butterfly valves at the cone ends make sure of full drain often to 100 percent with little residue. 

 

Cleaning and Maintenance

Cleanable interiors and access ports facilitate cleaning in place or manual wash and minimise downtime and the possibility of inadvertent cross contamination.

 

Customising and Versatility 

Customized configurations are possible due to optional functions such as spray nozzles, vacuum jackets, intensifier baffles, and automation amongst others and different sizes.

 

Hygenic standards 

The stainless steel polished construction allows adherence to pharmaceutical and food grade standards to have a hygienic production.

 

Constrains and Caveats 

 

The Double Cone Blender is not suitable when extremely cohesive or sticky substances are involved even though it is superb when it comes to gentle blending. The materials may not mix completely solely through diffusion or necessitate a declaration of brief mixing periods to prevent demixing bring about the particle trajectory segregation.

Similarly, the liquid based formulations or fine grinding would demand different types of mixers like ribbon blender or conical screw mixer.

 

Conclusion 

 

INCMachines Double Cone Blender is a High-Volume cost effective reliable and hygienic blender both in dry powders and granules both in pharmaceutical food cosmetic chemical and nutraceutical industries. It’s plain geometry provides laminar mixing without shear or heat without losing its integrity. Thus, it consumes the least amount of energy and can be cleaned easily. 

The liquid spraying vacuum purging, internal baffles and automated controls are optional features that provide the flexibility of many processes. The double cone blender can underpin reliable product quality and safe handling product quality suitable either the small scale R&D or large production/volumes.