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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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How to Choose Suitable Ribbon Blender for customers
Solid product need to be mixed to meet various objectives including mixing of ingredients such as fertilizer, feed, food product etc). Heating, drying, cooling and coating functions are requested by customers to fulfill complicated process.
A ribbon mixer consists of a U-shape horizontal vessel and an inner and outer helical ribbon agitator that move material in opposite directions. The ribbon can also be replaced by paddle design.
Ribbon Blender is famous of gentleness blending which can avoid shearing during mixing but other following factors can help customer to choose a suitable ribbon mixer:
1. How much room space is available in your plant? This can help us to choose a suitable dimension design in ribbon blender.
2. Does friability of your product require gentle blending?
3. What’s the capacity in kg for one batch?
4. What’s bulk density of your product?
5. What’s the physical or chemical characteristic of your product? Free flowing or bad flowing? Abrasive, Corrosive?
6. Lumping problem. Is there any lumping problem for your product during mixing? If so, we will design chopper beside vessel to break agglomerates.
7. Is your product heat sensitive?
8. Will you operate the mixer before feeding or after feeding?
9. Is there any chemical reaction inside ribbon blender? Any vacuum or pressure design in mixer?
10. Do you need other applications for ribbon mixer? Drying or heating or cooling?
11. Is contamination a critical risk and will you need frequent cleaning between batches?
For engineers, they always have time to test run process equipment but for purchase and budgetary, a determined judgment shall be made to choose the right mixer to meet their process requirement. So, it is very important for manufacturer to know details about customer’s requirement before making decision and manufacturer can share experience with customers. If you want to know more about mixer, please contact Vortex.
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