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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 Ribbon Blender Gives You Rapid, Thorough and Dust-free Blending
Dust-free Blending vortex produces ribbon mixers used in the process industries for rapid, thorough and dust-free blending of powders, granules, pellets and fibers and other bulk solids. Available in many standard sizes from 100 liters to 50000 liters working capacity, vortex ribbon blenders are manufactured for a wide range of bulk densities and applications with many customizable features to meet any special, sanitary or heavy-duty requirements.
Pictured is a ribbon blender model VRB-2 with a maximum working capacity of 1400 liters and a full volume of 2000 liters. The stainless steel wetted parts are polished to 300-grit finish for easy cleaning and elegant appearance. The gasketed cover, safety grating and pneumatic operated flap valve are all designed to facilitate convenient ingredient charging and dust-tight operation. The double ribbon agitator is precisely fabricated to produce a well-balanced axial and radial flow of powders while holding tightly-controlled clearances between the trough. The solid agitator shaft is drive to 40 rpm by a 22 kw Siemens motor. The packing PTFE sealing and air purge seal of main shaft also make sure the dust-free blending environment.
Unlike traditional belt-drive blenders which are prone to slippage and losses in efficiency, all vortex ribbon mixers are equipped with a direct drive gearmotor for more reliable performance and lower maintenance. With supplied control box, users received a production-ready blender and benefit from electronic speed controls, soft-start capabilities and overload protection without any wiring hassles.
Vortex offers many ribbon blenders with an extensive selection of optional features including pneumatic-operate covers, bag dump station, lantern ring, vacuum/pressure design, heating/cooling jacket, liquid spray bar, load cells and PLC recipe system.
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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