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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 Mixers for Food Processing
In food industry, Vortex design the mixers based on knowledge of food processing technology. Precision, efficiency, no pollution and easy cleaning is the point to food customers. Depending on different products, we have different types of mixers can be provided to customers and we are happy to share our experience with every customer to help them get the right mixer.
For mixers, no matter ribbon blender, plow mixer and conical mixer, some typical features are very important in mixer’s design. Firstly, the mixer must have easy access to clean inside part of mixer. So, we design big cleanout door in our mixer for working daily operation. Secondly, simple structure of split seal can make worker to clean and change seal part easily. Thirdly, round and smooth of inside agitator can reduce cross pollution during production and cleaning. At last, all of material used in mixer, must be food grade and fine polish.
Bakery Mixes
Today, precision mixing of ingredients and fast mixing time is basic process requirement for bakery mixes like flour, sugar, baking powder, flavoring and salt. Lumps are frequently formed during storage of raw material. So, it needs choppers to break lumps during dry mix circle. In this ingredient, some product like sugar and salt is heat sensitive which can not mix long time. So, short mixing time is necessary for sugar and salt ingredient. Furthermore, some customers also need liquid spraying in mixer for adding oil and some other liquid in their product.
Suitable Mixer: Plow Mixer, Ribbon Blender, Twin Shafts Paddle Mixer
Spices and Flavoring
Uniform mixture of aromatic vegetable parts such as flower buds or seeds with leaves are rather difficult to attain due to their dissimilar shapes and densities and tendency to segregate on discharge. The mixer with ribbon rotating prevents segregation of the product and rapid discharge of the materials. Gentle and rapid discharge blending action does not reduce particle size of friable material during mixing.
Suitable Mixer: Ribbon Mixer, Vertical Ribbon Mixer, Single Shaft Paddle Mixer
Powdered Drinks
Instant Ice Tea-extremely fine, light tea particles are difficult to mix with sugar and flavorings in mixers. The plough shear mixer with high-speed mixing choppers quickly make mixture homogeneity.
Instant breakfast drinks-vitamin and mineral powdered drinks require high accuracy. Dry milk powder, flavors are quickly mixed in Vortex mixer with a coefficient of variation of less than 1%.
Suitable Mixer: Ribbon Blender, Plough Shear Mixer
Chocolate and Candy
The most important operation in producing chocolate is the preparation of paste prior to refining. The efficient refining operation depends on the consistency and uniformity of the paste.
Suitable Mixer: Ribbon Blender, Plough Shear Mixer
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