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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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Ploughshare Mixer used for cement product
Ploughshare Mixer the begining of 2017, vortex got order from a Japanese company who make dry mortar product and invest in Indonesia. This project will finish installation and commissioning at the middle of 2017. So, it is a quick decision order from inquiry and making decision because this customer purchased our mixer before for their Malaysia factory.
Due to space limitation, the mixer will be supported and installed by ear lug on the body of vessel. The load cell is also put on ear lug to know the filling rate. The product will be loaded through dump station by manaul. Furthermore, we use pneumatic slide gate valve in order to save space and connect with buffering hopper on the top of package machine and connected by flexible pipe. The total volume of ploughshare mixer is 2000L and 1400L working capacity to get 1.5ton/batch output. This is just a trial product mixing line for customer and if the market is good, they will invest more and need more bigger mixer to meet their requirement.
Building material is a big industry and booming market in developing country. High efficiency and good quality is very important for customer to maximize productivity and minimize downtime. Almost all kinds of building material such as gypsum, cement, sand, fibre, insulation material, dry mortar, insulation mortar, special mortar can be mixed in ploughshare mixer but choppers can be optional according to feature of raw material.
Products suit for ploughshare mixer:
Facing plaster
Gypsum plaster
Cement plaster
Tile adhesive
Building mortar
Filling mortar
Insulating materials
Roof tile material
Window hardener paste
Dispersion plaster
and many more …
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