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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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India Dry Mortar Manufacturer use Vortex Ploughshare Mixer
Ploughshare Mixer Technology just delivered 4 sets ploughshare mixer to an Indian dry mortar manufacturer, India customer has strict requirement on machine quality and price, Vortex won this customer via tough negotiation.
Background Information:
Output Capacity: Primary capability to mix 3,000 kg batches of dry mortar/pre-mix type product, with cycle time <=5 minutes.
Raw Material: Mix of cement, sand, silica flour, aggregates, small quantities of powder polymer, pigments etc.
Bulk Density: Mixed product bulk densities range from 1.0 to 1.8 g/cc
Duty: Continuous use, Anticipated Fill time < 1 min, Anticipated Mixing time < 3.0 minutes. Anticipated discharge time < 1.0 min
Plough Shear Mixer Introduction
Plough Shovel Design:
Ploughs are adjustable to enable material movement in different paths. Considering silica and sand are both high abrasive, we design hard alloy bead welding on plough shovel and using wear resistant material for all material contact part.
Shaft Sealing:
Packing seal add external air purged shaft seals, to prevent material accumulation, and reduce risk of shaft mechanical wear & tear.
Choppers:
We design high speed chopper with 3000rpm to make a better mixing result and increase the mixing time. Furthermore, we shall also do wear resistant treatment to the chopper blades.
Sampling:
Sampling nozzle with isolation valve and be able to take samples easily, with no powder spillage/seepage/leakage & no encounter with moving parts.
Drive Unit:
Vortex designs heavy duty motor and gear reducer to strengthen the mixing agitator and increase mixing efficiency. We also use fluid coupling to ensure “over torque” protection & slow start sequence.
Bottom Discharge:
Considering minimum residues and fast discharge time, we design full bottom Bombay pneumatic operated discharge door for ploughshare mixer.
We have done many projects about dry mortar material and almost all the customers focus on wear resistant and discharge issue. So, we put effort to design and innovate a best way to fulfill customer’s requirement. Ploughshare mixer is the most popular mixer used in dry mortar industry.
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