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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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High performance ribbon blender could meet customers’ requirement
High performance aimed to better meet to the customer’s requirements, Vortex ribbon blenders are fabricated in standard and sanitary designs with customizable features for increased trustworthy of powder to powder, solid to solid and liquid to solid mixing actions. Available in the capacity from 50L to 10000L, Vortex ribbon blender could handle a number of processing objectives- from dry powder mixing, mixing solid of different particles, shapes and sizes, coating solids with little quantity liquid additives, paste mixing, preparing solid-liquid suspensions, and vacuum drying or cooling.
Pictured is Vortex Model VRB-1m3 ribbon blender with a maximum working volume of 650L. and 240-grit stainless steel 304 all parts. The dust-tight blender cover includes multiple custom ports, bag dumping cover with safety grating and bag dumping inlet with customer required dimensions.
Driven by a 11kw motor with customer required Siemens brand, the double ribbon agitator turns at 41 rpm (the speed of agitator could be adjusted under variable frequency starting). Due to the direct drive design between motor and reducer, Vortex ribbon blender do not suffer from the problems of belt slippage, stretching and wear – issues frequently encountered in lower quality ribbon blenders.
During the blending cycle, precise quantity of liquid ingredients is delivered via spray bars with fan-type spraying nozzles. In addition, spray balls are installed on the cover for convenient cleaning of the blender’s interior in between batches if there need to change the blending products.
Other customizations such as heating and cooling jacket, end wall scrapers, interchangeable paddle agitator, vacuum capability, abrasion-resistant wetted parts, all stainless-steel construction, reduced voltage starting or variable frequency starting, load cell weighing system and PLC-based recipe controls are offered as well. For more detailed information or get an offer with price, please feel free to contact us via email: info@incmachine.com
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