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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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Vortex Finish Bread Improver Powder Mixing Line in Argetina
In 2013, a bread improver manufacturer in Argetina found us to help them provide a mixing solution for their new building plant. At start, we got layout drawing of the plant and also got detail information about customer’s product.
Basic Information:
Product: Flour, Sugar, Salt, Nutritional Additives
Bulk Density: 0.5-0.6kg/L
Capacity: 500kg/batch
Flowability: not very good
Firstly, the customer design a preparation room to weigh and prepare raw material. Then, the worker put prepared raw material into movable trolley to mixing room. The mixer’s room is close to preparation room in order to easily move trolley to mixing room.
Secondly, we deign vacuum conveying for feeding. Putting raw material into feed dump and convey it into mixer through vacuum pump. This is a efficient way to feed material into mixer which can reduce pollution and easy clean. Vortex design ribbon mixer for customer to mix bread improver product. The size of ribbon blender is 1000L total volume with 700L working volume. The speed of ribbon is a little faster than ordinary ribbon mixer in order to save mixing time. At the bottom of mixer, we design movable dynamic hopper with agitator under discharge part of mixer. Then, the worker will move them to another place for packing. Due to flow ability of bread improver is not very good, we design hopper with agitator can make material easily discharge during packing. Furthermore, we also add vibration motor on hopper to help discharging. The customer put mixing line in the second floor and package machine in the first floor. They make a hole between first floor and second floor for packing.
Thirdly, the customer need one vertical package machine and one horizontal package machine for small bag. The worker put dynamic hopper at second floor and connect with screw conveyor to flexible connection with package machine at the first floor. The screw conveyor shaft can be took out for easy cleaning.
We finished this project at the end of 2013 and the customer is happy with our design and machine to help them improve their working capacity and they hope to expand their product line in 2015 for making pudding powder.
In summary, most food customer prefer easy and simple product line to reduce pollution and to make clean easily. Simple material convey without any part which can have pollution and dead space possible.
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