For applications that lend themselves to continuous mixing, the return on investment can be significant when considering reduced labor requirements, streamlined process cycle times and decreased product shrink between batches.
Continuous Single Agitator Mixer
Liquids with particulates and low viscosity slurries are continuously mixed in a single agitator, double ribbon blender. The outer ribbon conveys the product toward the discharge while the inner ribbon moves the material in the opposite direction, creating a counter-current mixing effect. The result is an efficient blending action with net forward conveyance of the product.
Continuous Twin Agitator Mixer
Twin agitation is applicable where increased blending and shear action is required. Viscous, tacky products tend to “cylinder” or travel with a single agitator. Twin agitators increase the turbulence in the product flow disrupting the “cylindering” effect. Typical applications include cheese products, dough mixes, pasty fillings, concentrated soups and viscous sauces.
Intermeshing Agitator Mixer
Intermeshing agitator mixers impart a very aggressive shearing force on stiff products and materials that do readily not mix together. Applications include rehydrating potato flakes, blending wetted flour formulations and other wet/dry ingredient combinations.
Continuous Cryogenic Mixer
In an illustration of Blentech's mixing innovation, we have combined continuous mixing with CO2 chilling while elevating the chilled material for loading into a downstream processing device.
Single Ribbon
Double Ribbon
Sickle Paddle
Solid Flight
Each Blentech continuous mixing system is uniquely designed to satisfy the specific blending requirements and production rate of the particular application. Our engineering team will assess your application to select the appropriate agitation system - single, dual or intermeshing agitators fitted with ribbon, paddle or solid flight agitators - for optimal mixing performance.
Metering pumps and dosing devices feed each component ingredient in at the continuous mixer inlet or at insertion points along the length of the mixer, depending on the mixing requirements of each component.
Continuous mixers can be customized for direct steam injection, steam/water jackets and applying cryogenic to heat, cook, cool or chill the product while it is being mixed and conveyed.
Continuous mixing is beneficial when any or all of the following conditions are met:
production volume of a single formulation justifies long productions runs
equivalent batch process is labor intensive and/or includes multiple steps
material handling between steps represents a sizeable portion of total process cycle time
mixing steps can be combined with no detrimental effect on product quality
all component ingredients can be metered with an accuracy to meet formulation specifications
If your product meets these criteria, Blentech has the know-how to design a continuous mixing system to fit your process requirements.
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