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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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Why choose a ribbon mixer from vortex corporation
Ribbon mixer“Mixing Knowledge” provide many useful tips and techniques on powder blending, high-viscosity mixing, particle mixing, sub-surface powder induction, sanitary mixing and other mixing topics.
More and more solid-solid and solid-liquid applications reply on the batch ribbon mixer for fast, straightforward, and reliable mixing. Vortex ribbon mixer consist of U-shaped trough and an agitator made up of inner and outer helical ribbons that are pitched to move materials axially, in opposing directions, and also radially. This versatile machine, it accomplishes powder or pellet blending, coating of solid particles with minor liquids or finer particles, mixing of low to medium viscosity slurries, and even vacuum drying of powders or pastes to a desired moisture content.
Selecting a suitable ribbon mixer for your particular application starts with specifying your batch weight and product bulk density. With these two items and consideration of loading factor of ribbon mixer, we could decide what kind of model is require, such as 100L, 500L, 1000L or 5000L, and etc.
Material of construction is selected for compatibility with all raw materials. Vortex ribbon mixer are generally made of three different materials, stainless steel 304, stainless steel 316 and carbon steel. Other features such as type of discharge valve, heating/cooling jacket, etc., must also be discussed in detail according with your situation.
Vortex ribbon mixer also has gearmotors design, which delivers higher operating efficiency, better performance, and numerous practical advantages. Because overhung loads on the motor and reducer-shaft bearing are eliminated in gearmotors, service life is longer. Variable frequency drives (VFD) allow soft start and provide a convenient way of controlling speed anytime during blending and discharging. The gearmotor/VFD technology is reliable and cost-effective option.
All in all, vortex ribbon mixer not only provide good quality mixer, but also share with you the technology of blending according to your requirement, which give you a comprehensive understanding of ribbon mixer you wanted.
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