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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 Mixer helps Coconut Flour become mainstream
Vortex ribbon mixers do well in mixing the coconut flour with other ingredients.
Coconut Flour is not as common as coconut oil, coconut milk and coconut flakes. It is a flour made from coconut meats and coconut solid that have been ground into a very fine powder. Let crack that coconut open to find out where the coconut flour come from. The white freshy part is considered the meat of this amazing super food. When the liquids are strained, ground or pressed out this meat, and they dried at very low temperatures, you’ve got a batch of delicious coconut flour. It has a mild coconut scent and flavor, which makes it suitable for flour-based recipes that don’t have other strongly-flavored ingredients such as cocoa powder or spices. That’s why coconut flour is suitable for mixing with other food ingredients and nutrient powder. At this time, there will need a very good quality stainless steel mixer.
Vortex ribbon mixers do well in mixing the coconut flour with other ingredients. Even though coconut floor is not yet mainstream, but as health conscious consumers check out the delicate flour’s serious health benefits (gluten free and high in fiber) and distinctive taste, it may soon be. Then ribbon mixer will be widely used in the mixing and blending of coconut flour. As the Vortex ribbon mixer consists of double helical agitator and U shaped shell, the outer ribbon make the material move from left side to right side, and the inner mixer move the material from right left side to left side, shaped a convectional, completely status and get a homogeneity result.
As Sir Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and etc. are the main place produce the coconut, these places also will be the main producer of coconut flour. With the mixing equipment development, the coconut flour will develop soon.
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