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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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More Customers Prefer Twin Shafts Paddle Mixer for Mixing Flour Product
Now, more and more flour customer inquiry paddle mixer for mixing flour powder with small rate additives. Recently, we have a project of General Mill company need one twin shafts paddle mixer for their Brasil factory.
This flour product line including pneumatic conveying system, sieving, mixing and packing. According to customer’s requirement, we design paddle mixer as following:
A. Drive Unit Design
Most twin shafts paddle mixer use chain trolley sprocket to drive reducer and motor but this will have big problem of pollution. So, we design direct connection gear reducer and one motor with enclosure stainless steel safety guard covered. It solve the issue of pollution and more simple structure to easy maintenance.
B. Shaft Move Out Design
As we know that twin shafts paddle mixer is complex to clean with many dead space for inside. So, we design two shafts move out system for easy cleaning when change product mixing. We use motor drive with screw to pull out two paddle shafts to let worker fully clean inside paddle agitator.
C. Paddle Design
Firstly, the paddle must be welded on support without any screw bolted. Inside polish must be round smooth. The clearance must be keep minimum.
D. Discharge Door
Full Open Discharge Door can minimize the material residues inside the mixer to make twice pollution.
This paddle mixer was delivered to customer’s plant in 2013. The plant manager Mr. Marcelo tell us that it takes only 90 seconds to finish homogeneity mixing and 20 seconds to fully discharge and ready for next batch. This help customer to highly increase the working efficiency and happy with mixer’s performance. That’s why the customer choose twin shafts paddle mixer and they appreciated with Vortex special design on twin shafts paddle mixer.
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