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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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Mixer Solutions for Building Material Industry
The building materials industry as a traditional sector of the economy is an important innovation driver. With modern production processes and products, this branch of industry contributes to a sustainable economic development.
Wide experience is required for handling products for the building materials industry. Detailed knowledge of the behavior of these products is essential for development of optimum mixing and processing systems. More than 1000 mixers are installed worldwide (especially in China) in this branch of industry. We provides innovative, cost-effective and practice-proven systems for every possible method of modifying and finishing building materials.
When talking about mixer as one of the most important part in building material process, there are some special treatment used in mixing machine which is different from other industry mixers.
Suitable mixer can be used for building material is plough shear mixer and twin shafts paddle mixer. These two kinds of mixers can both used for some ordinary building material but plough shear mixer will be better for some special building material which need chopper to break agglomerates like gypsum, fiber board.
Firstly, mixing tool is the most important because it must be wear-resistant enough for some hard material like sand. So, Vortex design wear resistant material like 2Cr13, Hardox and 16Mn for plow and paddle. Furthermore, we will also use alloy steel bead welding on plow and paddle which could strengthen the hardness of mixing tool. However, the plow and paddle also need to be designed as bolts connection which can be change easily in the future.
Secondary, the drive power shall be big enough because most building material is heavy density. Motor power, gear reducer, shaft and mixing tool must be strong enough to ensure working life.
Thirdly, the shaft speed must be fast enough to get homogeneity within shortest time because most building material product line is automatic control system. Mixing time has great influence on the whole production efficiency. According to our experience, the mixing time could be controlled in 60-90 seconds.
At last, discharge door on mixer should be designed big enough to make fast discharge. According to our experience, the discharge speed can be controlled in 30 seconds. Both plough shear mixer and twin shafts paddle mixer can use Bombay discharge valve which can fully open at the bottom of mixer.
Successful Cases:
Saint-Gobain
Davco
Ardex
Armstrong
Lafarge
Components and additives
• cellulose
• EPS
• fibrous materials
• fly ash
• highly hydraulic lime
• granulated slag sand
• lime hydrate
• perlite
• raw cement
• slag
• quick setting agent
• stone dust
• trass
• powdered clay
• vermiculite
• white cement
• cement
Mortar/Plaster for Flooring / Blast Furnace Slag Cement
• exterior rendering
• concrete flooring
• insulating materials (vermiculite/EPS, etc.)
• facing plaster
• colored plaster
• refractory materials
• filling mortar
• blast furnace slag cement (in diverse modifications)
• repair mortar
• special concrete
• first coat rendering
• casting compound
Gypsum and Gypsum Boards
• gypsum fibre board mixes
• sandwich plaster board mixes
• fillers for gypsum board systems
Adhesives and Multi-colored Fillers
• insulation adhesive
• tile adhesive
• filling mortar
• multi-colored fillers
Protective agents for buildings
• bitumen and chamotte powder
• sealing materials
• water repellent agents
• wood preservatives
Insulation systems
• insulation board mixes
• insulation from recycled materials
• insulation material mixes
• pore forming material mixes
• polystyrene insulation material
• acoustic boards
Boards / Bricks / Pre-Fabricated Parts
• mixes of paper fibres for tiles
• ceramic filter materials
• mixes for cladding panels
• mixes for tile moulding compounds
• mixes for ceramic plates
• furnace lining materials
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