Mixing and Blending Case Studies and White Papers
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Guard Against Product Migration In Your Ribbon Blender
4/30/2014
This application note offers tips for efficiently containing powders in a ribbon blender to ensure operator safety, prevent cross-contamination and promote easy clean up.
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Benefits Of Batch Ultra-High Shear Mixing And Homogenization In The Chemical Industry
4/30/2014
Throughout the process industries, high speed mixers are commonly used for a number of objectives including powder wet-out and dispersion, solubilization, particle size reduction and homogenization.
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Bags Don't Cut It: Achieve Better Throughput With V-Max
3/5/2014
A Northeastern chemical manufacturer is currently utilizing 50 um conventional bags at their blending and shipping loading rack. Where the existing fluid quality through the 50 um bags has been found to be acceptable, the unit is challenged by exceptionally high change out rates contributing to increased labor, which means increased costs and increased safety risks. They have also been experiencing reduced throughput.
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Overview Of Mixing Technologies For The Production Of Low To High Viscosity Adhesives
8/20/2013
The ideas discussed in this paper are recommendations based on Ross’ collective experience as a provider of specialty mixing equipment to the adhesive industries for over 170 years. Mixer testing and simulation trials are recommended to confirm the suitability of a specific mixing strategy.
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Traditional Medicinals Find The Answer To Move Blended Product Gently
5/31/2013
With over 34 years in the herbal supplement arena, Traditional Medicinals has combined the ancient art of traditional formulating with the most modern scientific methods of quality assurance and production, and remains dedicated to preserving earth’s natural resources, both human and natural.
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Pneumatic Conveyor Provides Competitive Edge For New Bio Based Detergent Expansion
5/31/2013
Sticky powders present manufacturers and processors with unique material conveying challenges involving volumetric auger fillers that dispense powders, granulars, and flakes for packaging. This article demonstrates how a proprietary vacuum conveying design prevents a sticky material handling problem.
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Specifying Motionless Mixers
5/8/2013
The operating cost for the energy necessary to mix fluids with a motionless mixer is usually far lower than for any competitive mixing technique. By Richard Harder
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How A Process Control System Can Help Increase Profits
5/8/2013
Creating an efficient mixing system is a balancing act. Throughput must be balanced against batch size, agitator sizes, motor sizes, shear speeds, viscosity, and many other variables.
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Increase Revenue And Petrochemical Production With Higher Accuracy And Improved Quality
2/19/2013
Tank farms store, sell and occasionally blend various refinery products based on mass and volume.
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Accurate And Reliable Online Phosphoric Acid Process Measurement
2/6/2013
Rising raw material costs, environmental sustainability and a global economy are some of the future challenges for the chemical industry. In order for production processes to run at peak performance, highly accurate, rugged and easily integrated field instrumentation are needed.