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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 Used as Dynamic Hopper Under The Mixer
Recently, we have some projects that customer want dynamic hopper with stirring system under our powder mixer in order to prevent the mixture change the density or block the outlet during the feeding process. Furthermore, there are some package machines or extruders under dynamic hopper to work at the same time to increase the working efficiency. However, the conical dynamic hopper can only has one outlet and installed one package machine or extruder under it. So, we design horizontal type hopper with ribbon stirring system to instead of conical hopper and it is well accepted by our customers.
The advantage of ribbon blender to be used as dynamic hopper is as following:
A. The most benefit of horizontal ribbon mixer to be dynamic hopper is working efficiency. No matter how big the mixer we use, the customer also needs big capacity package machines to match with mixer. But conical hopper just has only one outlet and can only match with one package machine which will have very big influence on working capacity and efficiency. Through our discussion with customer, Vortex Mixing Technology found a good solution for customer to use horizontal ribbon mixer with multiple outlets. One ribbon mixer can match at most four package machines under it. We design forward rotation and reverse rotation for ribbon to make outlet quantity uniformly. Furthermore, we also have discharge valve on outlet to control the discharge flow rate in order to prevent block at outlet.
B. Looking from dimension size, the conical hopper is high and need more space for it. If the plant size is limited, it is a problem for customer. The horizontal ribbon mixer can solve this issue and make the most compact size to help customer save more space.
C. According to our practical experience, the connection of dynamic conical hopper between mixer discharge port and hopper inlet port is very difficult because the drive unit is at top. If using ribbon mixer, this problem can be solved and you can put connection part wherever you want because the drive unit is at side.
D. Another problem of dynamic conical hopper is if have various and big different density material, it will make mixture separate. The heavy density material will stay at bottom and light on top. However, the ribbon mixer has no influence on it and can have homogeneous mixture. Although the ribbon blender looks like a dynamic hopper, it is also a mixer which can promise the homogeneity of final product before packing.
Actually, we have finished two projects that use ribbon blender as dynamic hopper under mixer. The feedback from customers is good and it is a perfect solution could be presented to more customers in the future if they want to maximize capacity and efficiency in a limited space plant.
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