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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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Easy Design of Ribbon Mixer for Food Powder
Ribbon Mixer is a popular used mixer machine in food industry. It can get good result for free flowing or sticky powder material. Because of simple structure, low energy consumption and easy cleaning, ribbon mixer is well accepted by many food customers such as Kraft, General Mill, Pepsi, Mars, Heinz etc. So, why many food customers prefer ribbon mixer and what’s the advantage of ribbon mixer, we can make explanation as following:
1. Simple Structure
1000L Ribbon Mixer
Ribbon Blender is consists of ribbon agitator, U shape vessel, two end plates and drive unit. The ribbon shaft can be easily cleaned without any dead space. Because of it’s simple structure, ribbon blender is easily maintenance and few troubleshooting. The ribbon is polished in round edge and smooth which residues can be easily cleaned by manual.
2. Drive Part
Due to ribbon mixer is a kind of mild mixing machine, the shaft speed is not fast and needn’t large power motor for drive unit. Furthermore, the drive structure is also very simple which can be separated into belt drive and direct connection drive. Furthermore, there will be no any pollution of oil because all of drive unit is at outside part of vessel.
3. Seal Structure
For food customers, they all prefer simple and good seal structure which needs to be easily maintained and change in the future. So, we design split packing seal structure for ribbon mixer which can easily change inside packing in daily working time. The worker just needs to lose some screw bolts and fasten it. It is a very simple and fast way to change packing seal. As for packing material, we use white color PTFE material for packing. Maybe some customer need food grade certificate packing, we can also provide to them.
4. Discharge Part
As for discharge, we normally use flap valve, butterfly valve and slide valve. However, flap valve is the best way to reduce residue and dead space during mixing because there will be about 80mm height space for butterfly valve and slide gate valve. If customer has high demand in dead space problem, flap valve can solve this problem. The valve body can totally match with bottom of vessel without any dead space.
5. Control System
It is a very simple control system because the control panel just needs to control one motor and solenoid valve of pneumatic operated valve. Easy operate and low failure rate can help customer to get more efficiency in production.
6. Easy Clean
We design open lid on top of ribbon mixer and worker can easily clean the mixer from top. There will also be safety grid and safety switch to avoid the worker open the lid during mixer’s working. If worker open the lid during working, the mixer will be stop.
Vortex is the expert of ribbon mixer and we have full experience of ribbon mixer in food industry. Anyway, we choose different mixer and have different design according to customer’s material. Now, we have double ribbon mixer, disconnect ribbon mixer and ribbon mixer with chopper for different features of raw material. We highly focus on every customer’s need and help them to lift business.
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