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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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How Twin Shaft Paddle Mixer Works
Shaft paddle mixer could also be called double shaft mixer, which consists of two shaft agitators and two semicircle vessels. The paddle agitator includes multiple paddles positioned to move materials in opposing lateral directions and radially. The materials being blended will be lifted up by overlapping paddles and make material in non-gravity action which will have a perfect mixing homogeneity result.
Twin shaft paddle mixer’s main task is to produce a homogeneous mixture, independent of size, shape and density, in shortest possible time. Twin paddle mixers are ideal for high volume batch production where fragile materials are being mixed and gentle mixers are required. The two axes of mixing interior rotate to different directions according to a stable apex speed. At this time, the movement of materials is concentrated on the higher center part from the bottom of mixer. And therefor, the effective volume of mixing room increases, as the effective volume increase, the collision and rubbing between materials decrease. The twin paddle mixer is considered as one of the best in homogeneity and has been used for decades within all processing industries, such as Cement, Flooring materials, Dry mortars, Abrasives, Ceramics, Road linings, Pet foods, Horse feeds, Poultry feeds, Fat coatings, Cereals, Pigments, Detergents, Fertilizers, Pesticides, Peat moss, Cake mixes, Coffee, Mueslis, Fruit mixes, Frozen vegetables/rice etc.
The twin shaft paddle mixer has standard Features:
1. Fabricated in stainless steel or tailor made
2. Drive from geared motor for same speed on each blade
3. Multi paddle overlapping blades
4. Homogeneous blending result
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