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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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Ribbon Blender Could be Multiple Design For Different Applications
Ribbon Blender has been one of the most widely used powder mixer in the worldwide every day. It is a basic industrial mixing machine. They consist, basically, of a trough-shaped shell with a semicircular bottom, fitted with a horizontal longitudinal shaft on which are mounted arms supporting a combination of ribbon blades, paddles or helical screws set at a fairly close clearance to the semicircular mixer body so that no layer of material remains on the bottom of the mixer. The most effective design of ribbon layout is the double spiral in which the outer ribbon moves the product in one direction and the inner ribbon moves it in the opposite direction. The ribbons rotate and move materials both radially and laterally to insure thorough blends in short cycle times. Ribbon agitators are used for blends that will be between 30 and 70% of the rated capacity of the blender.
Advantages of ribbon mixer:
- Mild mixing which will not break the physical size of material
- Easy cleaning
- Easy Maintenance
- Low Power Energy
- Multiple Design
Now, the ribbon blender can be designed for different applications according to customer’s process. We introduce some normally seen types in order to help customer to choose right mixer.
- Normal Standard
It is a basic type which is widely used for various industries. The drive unit could be light duty or heavy duty and shaft is flange connection for easy maintenance. - GMP Standard
As we all know, GMP is the highest standard for mixer which need Ra0.4 finish for material contact part inside mixer. Furthermore, the construction material of mixer should be stainless steel 304 or 316L. However, the bolts and screws are not allowed inside. So, thru shaft without flange is standard for GMP ribbon blender. The seal part should also be split seal which can be maintained easily to change packing seal. The key point is there must be no any dead space for contamination. - Jacket Type
For some typical processed material, the customer need cooling or heating jacket to be combined with mixing. For example: the cooling jacket is normally used in plastic powder industry and heating jacket is normally used for drying. Due to it is more complex than ordinary type mixer, the engineer shall get detail information about jacket using including pressure, working medium and temperature. - Vacuum Type
Normally speaking, vacuum and drying is always be together in mixer because the vapor shall need to be sucked out in order to get better and fast drying result. All construction part on ribbon mixer is stronger than standard type and cover of mixer shall be cone type in order to bear vacuum pressure. - Choppers Type
Ribbon Blender is not a good mixer for shearing mixing like ploughshare mixer but choppers can be added as option in order to break agglomeration. When customer adds liquid spraying onto powder, the product is easily gets blocked. So, it needs chopper blades to shear caking.
Other Optional for Ribbon Blender
- Discharge Valve: Flap Valve, Butterfly Valve, Slide Gate Valve, Segment Ball Valve
- Double Helical Ribbon, Paddle, Disconnect Ribbon
- Explosion-proof Motor
- Customize Design
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Typical Processed Material
- Baby food
- Milk powder
- Bakery premixes
- Salt
- Dried food products
- Animal Feed
- Plastic resins
- Plastic powders
- Carbon black
- Polyethylene
- Polymer additives
- Chemicals
- PVC compounding
- Cleaning compounds
- Talcum powders
- Laundry detergents
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