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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
For nearly 30 years Vortex Mixing Technology company has been designing and manufacturing Ribbon Blenders for a wide variety of mixing applications. Our unique Ribbon Blender triple action agitator insures rapid, homogeneous blending of even the most difficult blending applications.
The traditional U-Shaped Shell is found on the majority of ribbon blenders. The full open top allow for ease of access during cleaning. Cover arrangements typically include a flanged, filtered Bag Dump Work Station and end cover.
Ribbon Blenders with Cylindrical Shells are used for applications where vacuum or pressure or heating/cooling is required. Access is limited to small side access doors or top mounted manways.
Ribbon Blenders with Semi-Cylindrical Shells lend themselves to cooker/cooler applications where a greater level of heat transfer is needed than can be accommodated in a U-shaped vessel.The large rectangular top provides greater access than found in a cylindrical ribbon blender. The 300° cylindrical shell also elimninates pinch points for shear sensitive products.
The Double Ribbon Blender agitator is valued for its thorough mixing. It consists of an inner and an outer ribbon providing counter-directional flow while keeping the product in constant motion throughout the vessel. Inside ribbons move materials toward the ends of the ribbon blender whereas the outside ribbons move material back toward the center discharge of the ribbon blender.
The Paddle-Ribbon agitator combines inner ribbons with outer paddles. The Paddle-Ribbon Blender is especially well suited for fragile, heat sensitive products. While maintaining counter-directional flow, the outer paddles minimize pinch points at the wall thus introducing less frictional heat than a continuous outer ribbon.
The APS Sanitary and Ultra-Sanitary Double Ribbon Blenders, Paddle Blenders and combination Paddle Ribbon Blenders consist of a stainless steel, U-shaped mixing tank witha two-piece, removable solid bar shaft agitator supported at each end by suspended pillow block bearings. The tank is a one-piece weldment. There are no removable or slotted endplates with seams for unmixed material to accumulate. Heavy-duty, plasma cut agitator tool support posts, flange free construction and continuous welds ground smooth with large radii throughout adding further to the structural integrity and cleanliness of our agitator and housing design.
Every APS agitator shaft is constructed of solid stainless or carbon steel and designed to be free of any nuts, bolts, or flanges. This unique design provides much greater strength than pipes or tubes. The agitator is warranted to the Purchaser by American Process Systems to be free of any defects, including breakage, for the life of the mixer! This “Guaranteed For Life” warranty is an advantage when heavy-duty or extra heavy-duty construction is required.
Application expertise along with engineering and manufacturing flexibility allows us to truly offer tailored mixing solutions for a great many mixing and blending applications.
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