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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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Rice flour manufacturer in Thailand purchased 1000L ribbon mixer
Rice flour manufacturer and exporter bases in Thailand. They are in the rice flour industry for more than 20 years. Their products portfolio includes Rice Flour and Glutinous Rice Flour under “Desert Rose Brand” in both dry milling and wet milling process. They mill flour in varieties of its particle size. Apart from rice flour products, they also supply Tapioca Starch and Tapioca Pearl (Sago) to our customers. Their products are supplied to worldwide markets and business grows fast. So their director contact Vortex to look for ribbon mixing machine for mix their flour.
In April, 2014, Poppy from Varavoot called Vortex and said they are looking for ribbon mixer for mixing flour which particle size 150 microns, moisture content 13% max withdensity 0.6 kg/liters. Volume per batch is 500kg. He want Vortex engineer to recommend they which model of ribbon mixing machine comply with their purpose.
After calculation, we proposed 1500L ribbon mixer and send them detailed technical parameters, after reviewing that they asked us several questions and we answer them as follows:
1. Is your machine have twin shaft or sing shaft?
Re: Our ribbon mixer is single shaft while we also have double shaft mixer. We have double shaft paddle mixer but it is not easy to clean compared with single shaft mixer.
2. What is difference usage between double shaft and sing shaft?
Re: Single shaft is easy to clean. Double shaft has shorter mixing time but not easy to clean.
3. What is the double helix ribbon mixing machine? Is it same as your machine?
Re: A double helix ribbon mixer’s agitator consists of a set of inner and outer helical agitators.
The outer ribbon moves in one direction and the inner ribbon moves the materials in the opposite direction, and thus results thorough mixing homogeneity.
Poppy is very satisfied with our answers, we also sent them customer reference and drawing of ribbon mixer. They placed the order in no time.
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