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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 Mixer Simplifying Material Handling For Flour Powder
When talking about food processing technology, which is the best way to solve conveying, mixing and packaging issue? Vortex has full knowledge of this and can provide the best solution to customers.
Case Study:
Customer Name: MONDE NISSIN CORPORATION
Place: Manila, Philippines
Project: 4500kg/hour capacity flour process line
Feed Way: Vacuum Conveying
Vacuum conveying is a modern way of transporting powders and granules with a number of benefits, see below.
1. Reduce product scrap and product contamination
2. Small Footprint
3. Minimize maintenance
4. Dust free working environment
5. Production flexibility
Principle of Vacuum Conveying
Vacuum is created with compressed air through Vacuum Pump (A). The pump can be automatically controlled.
The bottom valve (B) closes and the vacuum increases in the container (C) and the conveying line (D).
The product is carried away from the feed station (E) into the conveying line and then to the mixer.
The filter (F) protects the pump and the surrounding area from dust and small particles.
During the conveying time, the air shock tank (G) is filled with compressed air.
At a preset time, the pump and the conveying are stopped and the bottom valve (B) is opened. The product is discharged at the same time as the air shock is activated and the compressed air cleans the filter from dust and small particles.
When the pump starts again, this process is repeated and a new cycle starts. The suction time and emptying times are normally controlled by a pneumatic or an electric control system.
Mixing:
When talking about mixer, ribbon blender, plough shear mixer and twin shafts paddle mixer can both used in flour powder mixing.
Looking from mixing speed, plough shear mixer and twin shafts paddle mixer can finish homogeneous mixing within 5 minutes.
Looking from cleaning, ribbon blender is the easiest one to be cleaned. There are few dead space inside mixer. Twin shafts paddle mixer is more complicated to be cleaned.
If adding liquid oil additives, it will be easy to have blocks. Plough shear mixer’s high speed chopper can break blocks and have a good result.
After Mixing:
According to different requirement, some customers prefer filling finish product into movable storage hopper and then move to package. Some customers prefer automatic control package system through buffering hopper.
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