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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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Different Application of Ribbon Blender
As the most popular powder mixer, ribbon blender has been developed in various applications according to different customers’ requirement. Vortex can design different ribbon mixers depend on the process of material and result that the customers need.
Gentle Mixing:
Due to the mixing principle of ribbon blender, it is well known that mild and gentle mixing is one advantage of ribbon mixer. For dry and free flowing powder material such as milk powder, seasoning, animal feed, detergent etc, ribbon blender can fully meet homogeneous demand. Generally speaking, the mixing time is around 5-8 minutes.
Shearing Mixing:
Different from plough shear mixer, ribbon blender can also be designed for shearing function but not as strong as plough mixer. For ordinary ribbon mixer, it consists of double ribbon including outer ribbon and inner ribbon. In order to get a shearing function, we design disconnect ribbon or paddle or teeth ribbon for inner layer ribbon to instead of continuous ribbon. It is better in liquid spraying additives formula. If you want to get a better agglomerate breaking, we can also design high speed chopper on the side of U shape vessel. The ribbon shall avoid chopper blade position.
Cooling/Heating:
For some typical process and material, cooling or heating jacket is necessary during mixing. For example, the resin and plastics product need cooling before extruding. Some metal powder need liquid spraying and heating during mixing. The liquid shall coat on the powder and extract the gas through vacuum pump. We have one tobacco customer in India. They use our ribbon blender to dry their product through not only outside heating jacket on vessel and end plate, but also adding hot water into shaft to get better drying effect.
Paste Mixing:
Ribbon Blender can also be used for some paste and slurry product but the power shall be increased and the speed of shaft could be slow. The customer will add powder additives into paste product. As for discharge, it will be better to use pump below the discharge valve to take out final product.
No matter what process and what kind of product you mix, Vortex will provide professional mixer selection and design to each customer. We think ahead and carefully focus on bulk material handling to help customers increase working efficiency and lift your business.
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