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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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New Challenging For Powder Mixer Manufacturer
With development of industry and consumers’ demand, high performance, efficient and complicated powder handling process technology is required by every manufacturers. Less and less workers needed, more and more automatic systems appear in factory. So, choosing a right and high performance mixer is very important for manufacturer before investment. Every mixer has its own advantage and be suitable for specific raw material handling. According to our recent years’ experience, more and more customers prefer simple and sanitary system for food, high efficiency system for dry mortar, automatic system for fertilizer, environment-friendly system for chemicals and multiple system for other complex product.
Food Industry
No matter ribbon blender, ploughshare mixer, paddle mixer and conical mixer, no bolts, high grade polish, no dead space and easy clean is a must for food industry to meet sanitary and GMP standard. However, all can be used in food industry but they have their own advantage and be suitable for specific raw material handling. Generally speaking ribbon mixer and ploughshare mixer is better for dry food powder because of good mixing result in short time and very easy to clean. No matter which mixer we choose, following issue should be focused:
A. Smooth and Fine Polish (Polish must be at min. Ra0.8)
B. Seal Part (like teflon packing seal, the seal structure must be removable for cleaning and easy change for the future)
C. Vessel (there must be without any dead space)
D. Discharge Valve (butterfly valve and slide gate valve has dead space at bottom of discharge port. We shall use flap valve in order to make valve body fully and completely match with bottom of vessel to avoid any dead space)
E. All of seal part must be food grade like PTFE or food grade silicone rubber
Dry Mortar
High efficiency and wear resistance is very important because big product capacity and high wear is two key features for dry mortar or any building material. Considering above issues, we must design high wear resistant and replaceable mixing elements. Big and fast discharging is another key part for dry mortar station because 8-10 batches per hour is needed for big capacity product line. Furthermore, dust collection is important in order to keep environment and less pollution.
Fertilizer
With development of process technology, more and more customers prefer automatic system for their product line. Fertilizer is one of popular industry to use auto system production line including raw material storage, transportation, sieving, mixing and packaging. Each part shall be exact caculated and well controlled by PLC system. In 2013 and 2014, we successfully finished three fertilizer product lines in Chile, Malaysia and Saudi.
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