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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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Vortex makes Ribbon Blender for Specialty Applications
Ribbon Blender the feature of ribbon blender allowing a full range of customization and vortex welcomes the customizations, vortex ribbon blenders offer many practical solutions for specialty and required applications. These customized ribbon blenders are widely used for mixing and blending fine powders, granules, pellets and other good fluidity solids, as well as wet applications such as suspensions, slurries and pastes. Vortex customized ribbon blenders are available in vacuum application and internal pressure, temperature control, food standard constructions, special requirements for feeding and discharging, safety guards, access and maintenance door, handling of high density, friable or abrasive materials, spray system for liquid additions, load cells and automated recipe controls. Vortex could offer these optional features routinely.
Pictured is a vortex model VRB-10m³ carbon steel ribbon blender with volume of 6500L maximum working capacity. Driven by a 55kw motor (Siemens brand) and reducer (gear reducer), the precisely fabricated double ribbon agitators turn to up to 20 rpm within the U-shaped vessel, forming a convection movement, producing a balanced lateral and radial movement of mixing materials. As customer required, wetted parts are made of carbon steel for economic cost requirements. The blender cover includes safety grating and custom bag dump station. The discharge port is installed with valve driven by pneumatic jacket, and the seal of discharge port is very reliable. Meanwhile, carbon steel jacket is supplied around the trough for heating usage. Multiple spray bars and nozzles deliver liquid raw materials. This jacket type ribbon blender is for our South Africa customer’s carbon slurry and binder’s mixing and drying application.
For more information on Vortex ribbon blenders or other blenders, please feel free to visit our website: www.incmachine.com or email to info@incmachine.com to discuss with our sales engineers for your specialty applications.
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