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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 for an Australian Customer in Whey Protein Mixing Industry
ENRG Sports Pty LTD is a famous Australia company for nutritional whey protein powders. They placed an order of ribbon blender for mixing whey protein and Maltodextrins in May 2017.
The customer need ribbon blender for protein powder with 0.5-0.6 bulk density and 200kg capacity per batch. Vortex designed 500L ribbon blender with stainless steel 304 as construction materials, Siemens motor, pneumatic operated flap valve with 24V solenoid valve. Please kindly note the solutions offered to our customer as below:
1. Stainless steel 304 construction materials
As customer’s project is food industry plant, stainless steel could meet to the standard of food grade. Meanwhile, as whey protein and maltodextrins is not corrosive materials, we propose stainless steel 304 instead of stainless steel 316 as the construction materials of ribbon blender for economic requirements.
2. Pneumatic operated flap valve
Customer wanted the slide gate valve at first, however we propose pneumatic operated flap valve. There was a dead end from slide gate valve to the bottom of vessel, materials in this space could not be blended. Our pneumatic operated flap valve can be totally matched with the bottom vessel, there was no dead angle. At last, our customer chooses the pneumatic operated flap valve instead of slide gate valve.
Vortex successful finished this order in July 2017. The mixer will arrive at Perth in August. The customer is happy to work with Vortex Company. They said they are looking forward to the performance of this ribbon blender.
Vortex has exported plenty of mixing equipment to Australia, Germany, Canada, USA, Thailand, Indonesia etc. foreign countries. We have worldwide customers and build a good reputation among customers. Please feel free to contact us via email: info@incmachine.com or visit our website www.incmachine.com for more details. We will do our best to help you to address your mixing problems. Vortex, beyond your expectation.
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