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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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What a ribbon blender manufacturer should know about your mixing speeds
Choosing the right ribbon blender for your application means providing detailed information about your material, process, and equipment requirements to the mixer manufacturer. The manufacturer will keep your information confidential. Following are typical questions the manufacturer asks.
Your materials
• What are the names and bulk densities of the materials to be mixed?
• What are the approximate proportions of the materials to be mixed and the end product’s bulk density?
• What are the material’s characteristics, such as abrasiveness, flammability, and corrosiveness, and are the materials solid, paste, or liquids?
• What’s the volume you expect to mix per batch?
• The voltage, frequency and phase in your workshop
Your process
• What batch size, mixing time, and production throughput per hour do you expect the mixer to provide?
• From which side, and how (or with what equipment), will the materials be loaded into the mixer?
• From which side, and how (or with what equipment), will the end product be discharged?
• Will the loading, mixing and discharge cycles have any special requirements, such pressure or vacuum operation or heating or cooling? Must information about the temperature, material level, or material weight be supplied during any of these operations?
Your equipment requirements
• Will the mixer be started under load or require frequent start-stop cycles (or both)?
• What construction materials does the mixer require, especially in the material-contact areas, support structure, and drive?
• What finish, if any, must the mixer have, and what standards (such as 3-A sanitary) or approvals (such as USDA or FDA) must the finish meet?
• Where and at what height will the discharge be located and what type of discharge should it be? How and from what side will it be operated?
• Will the ribbon assembly need any special modifications, such as high-speed choppers?
• What are the cover requirements, including the cover size and the need for gaskets, special openings or transitions, clamps, grates, and safety microswitches?
• What power supply (volts, cycles, and phase) is available, and where do you want to locate the drive?
• What auxiliary equipment (such as sifters, screw conveyors and surge bins) do you need?
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