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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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GMP standard Conical Screw Mixer attracts Nutrition manufacturer
Vincent Campbell plans to establish a new product line for his chemical factory coming out in 2016. His research team spent the last 3 months for their new product which Vincent believed to be something to rock the market. However, they do have a problem needed to be solved right away. They need to mix vitamins, minerals, and our main product sodium sulphate together with propionic acid (liquid).
After discussing with Vincent, we get to know that he will need a 500L conical screw mixer according Good Manufacturing Practice. Contamination is 100% not allowed during production, we takes some measures to avoid leakage:
1. Mechanical seal on top shaft below reducer box part and also oil seal at below.
2. The lubrication on mixing arm is high temperature resistant lithium grease, which is like high viscosity grease not liquid.
3. Double layer oil seal on screw flange part.
Besides this, we equipped a vacuum conveyor to lift raw materials, vacuum conveyor won’t break raw materials, what’s more, no contamination risk; we also equipped liquid spray device and heating jacket for him.
500L conical screw mixer with vacuum conveyor
After checking our proposal, Vincent is very satisfied, we also made a test in our lab, the mixing result exceed Vincent’s expect. He told us that he will purchase 15 sets GMP standard conical screw mixer on site.
Over the past decade, lab testing has been a big part for helping Vortex MT clients pick up the most suitable blenders. We are very interested in learning about your mixing needs.
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