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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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Ribbon blender dryer for tapioca powder
Vortex developed VRB-10000L ribbon blender dryer with heat jacket to realize drying purpose. Indonesian client successfully installed the whole system, and dry the native tapioca powder from 50% moisture content to 5% moisture content.
Background:
In 2019, a company in Indonesia found vortex to seek a kind of dryer, they also need to add liquid during drying, and want to equip CIP liquid spray nozzles to totally clean the mixer after each process batch. Vortex successfully design and fabricated the ribbon blender dryer.
Features of ribbon blender dryer:
A new Vortex ribbon blender dryer model VRB-10-SS features heat jacket to heat inner materials at mixing. Thermal oil or steam could flow through the jacket to realize heat exchange purpose.
The jacket could bear 10 bar pressure, which ensures enough flow rate to bring more heat energy at certain time, simultaneously the mixer body requires -0.5 bar vacuum pressure, accelerating the drying process.
Dust is drawn onto cartridge filters of the dust collector as nozzles within each filter alternately emit short blasts of air on a timed cycle, serving to dislodge accumulated dust and maintain vacuum efficiency.
The ribbon blender dryer can blend up to 6000L (6 m3) of native tapioca powder in 5 to 10 minutes depending on application. Its length-to-diameter ratio and split double-helical agitator reportedly reduce the time required to uniformly distribute particles having dissimilar sizes, shapes and bulk densities throughout the batch.
Tight tolerances of 3 to 5 mm between the ribbon blades and the vessel trough, minimize residual product following discharge, reducing material waste and cleaning time.
This ribbon mixer dryer is food grade sus304 stainless steel, mill polished to confirm with Asia food grade standard.
Summary
Diligent design, precision fabrication, and continuous innovation make Vortex to be the first choice by end customer. Furthermore, we also have close relationship with Europe mixer partners to communicate technology and do R&D work together to present smart mixer machinery to customers.
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