Mixing and Blending
MIXING AND BLENDING CASE STUDIES, WHITE PAPERS, & APPLICATION NOTES
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![Charles Ross Feature]( "Recommended Mixing Equipment For Catalytic Slurries")
Recommended Mixing Equipment For Catalytic SlurriesCatalytic slurries consisting of solid catalysts and support materials suspended in a liquid medium are commonly prepared in batch tanks agitated by low-speed mixers such as propellers, anchor paddles and pitched blade impellers. These devices can sometimes suffer from long cycle times and inadequate dispersion especially in large batches. Technologies like the Ross Solids/Liquid Injection Manifold (SLIM) offer a more practical method of wetting out powders and quickly achieving the desired particle size distribution in high percent solids slurries.
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![Charles Ross Feature]( "Recommended Mixing Equipment For Polyvinyl Alcohol Solutions")
Recommended Mixing Equipment For Polyvinyl Alcohol SolutionsPolyvinyl alcohol (PVOH, also referred to as PVA) is a versatile polymer that plays multiple roles in the manufacture of adhesives, sealants, cosmetics, paper, textiles and many other products. This paper describes the benefits of preparing PVOH solutions in a well-designed Multi-Shaft Mixer capable of bulk agitation, high shear deagglomeration, and superior heat transfer.
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![Trees are growing.jpg]( "Pesticide Gel Production In A Ross VersaMix Triple-Shaft Mixer")
Pesticide Gel Production In A Ross VersaMix Triple-Shaft MixerHerbicides and insecticides in gel form enable easy, accurate and controlled application for increased efficacy and safety. Compared to traditional pesticides that are sprayed or sprinkled, gel formulations are smeared onto targeted surfaces which reduces the risk of chemical runoff and contamination.
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![Charles Ross Feature]( "Mixers that Gel With Your Application")
Mixers that Gel With Your ApplicationA global cosmetic company with the goal of expanding their gel manufacturing capabilities found a solutions with the 100-gallon VersaMix Multi-Shaft Mixer.
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![Charles Ross]( "Sanitary Mixing In Multi-Agitator Systems")
Sanitary Mixing In Multi-Agitator SystemsMulti-shaft mixers are versatile systems used in the production of food, beverage, pharmaceutical and medical products. This bulletin discusses a few equipment features commonly supplied on multi-shaft mixers intended for sanitary applications.
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![Choose The Right Inline High Shear Mixer For Your Process]( "Choose The Right Inline High-Shear Mixer For Your Process")
Choose The Right Inline High-Shear Mixer For Your ProcessThis white paper presents some ideas for selecting the right inline high shear mixer for your process based on a company’s collective experience as a mixing equipment provider to process industries.
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![stepsincreaseenergy_efficientmixing.jpg]( "5 Steps To Increase Energy-Efficient Mixing")
5 Steps To Increase Energy-Efficient MixingMixer testing simulation trials are needed to confirm the suitability of a specific mixing strategy. This white paper explores five ways to increase energy efficiency in new and existing mixing processes.
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The Quest For Clean Mixing
Mixing is one of the most common operations in food processing, but comes with challenges -- batch-to-batch uniformity, optimizing blend times, and most importantly: improving cleanliness.
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![Charles Ross and Son Company - mixers, blenders, dryers and dispersion equipment]( "Solutions To Batch Mixing Issues")
Solutions To Batch Mixing IssuesMixing processes vary from one application to another and there are no fix-all solutions.This white paper presents some strategies for improving commonly encountered batch mixing problems.
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![EfficientPowder.jpg]( "Efficiencies In Powder Dispersion For Manufacturers")
Efficiencies In Powder Dispersion For ManufacturersUniformly dispersing powders into a liquid batch in a practical amount of time is a common problem for F&B manufacturers. This white paper explores five tips for dispersing powders more efficiently.
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How To Optimize Solid-Liquid Mixing
This paper provides practical information on the efficient use of specialty mixing equipment for the preparation of low, medium and high viscosity solid-liquid mixtures under low and high shear conditions.
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![Charles Ross and Son Company - mixers, blenders, dryers and dispersion equipment]( "How To Easily Scale-Up Mixing Systems")
How To Easily Scale-Up Mixing SystemsWhen selecting mixing systems, foresight for scale-up is important for long-term success. A quick shift between systems can be the difference between economical success and a financial disaster.
MIXING AND BLENDING PODCASTS, VIDEOS, AND MORE
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High Viscosity Mixing Using Change Can Mixers
Mixing challenges throughout the process industries are heightened as the viscosity and complexity of the mixture rises. This webinar reviews the numerous options that are available to help select the most efficient mixer for a users requirements.
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A Ribbon, Tumble Or Vertical Blender - Which Is Best For My Process?
Dry blenders are typically described as being of horizontal, vertical or tumbling designs. On the surface it would seem that each can be used for the same application, but subtle differences usually make one preferable over another. This webinar helps to narrow the choice of the unit for a particular production requirement.
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Agilent Technologies Introduces The New Stand-Alone Sample Prep System At Pittcon 2011 At Pittcon 2011, Agilent Technologies introduces their new instrument, a stand-alone sample prep system for LC and GC samples.
MIXING AND BLENDING PRODUCTS
Ross-Lube is for nearly all mixing and blending applications. The lubricant can reduce wear by
Ross is the leading supplier of Ribbon, Tumble and Vertical Blenders for dry powder blending and drying for the process industries. Many products including pharmaceuticals, foods, chemicals, fertilizers, plastics, pigments, and cosmetics are manufactured in Ross dry blending equipment.
Ross manufactures a range of sizes from ½ through 515 cu.ft. working capacity. Ross blenders are supplied with several agitator design possibilities including continuous or cut-out ribbons for center or end discharge, a paddle design is also offered for shear sensitive blending applications.
Charles Ross & Son Company’s Sanitary PVM 200-gallon VersaMix was designed to produce sanitary emulsions in short mixing cycles...
The new line of Model 42C Cylindrical Ribbon Blenders are designed to mix dry powders, wet granulations and paste-like materials with densities up to 100 lb/cu.ft. Available in many sizes from 1/2 to 1,000 cu.ft. working capacity, Cylindrical Ribbon Blenders can be built for atmospheric, full vacuum or internal pressure operation. A full range of standard, heavy-duty and sanitary models are offered.
The Model PD-2 two-gallon PowerMix is for the development of viscous mixtures requiring a combination of slow and high speed agitation
MIXING AND BLENDING NEWS
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Charles Ross & Son Company, a global supplier of specialty mixing equipment announced the release of its new white paper “High Speed Mixers for Paints, Inks & Coatings”. The paper, which can be accessed for free from the main Ross website www.mixers.com, examines different mixing technologies utilized for powder wet-out, dispersion, particle size reduction, high-viscosity mixing and other processing objectives.
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![Untitled]( "Low Shear Blending And Vacuum Drying In Ross Vertical Blenders")
Ross Vertical Blenders are ideal for low shear blending of powders, pellets, granules, fibers and other solids.
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![Ross-Planetary-Dual-Dispers]( "Ross Hits Sales Milestone In The Battery Industry")
Since introducing the world’s first change can mixer over 100 years ago, Ross recently continues to innovate and develop new solutions in mixing.
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![Ross-Sanitary-Ribbon-Blende]( "Ross Expands Ribbon Blender Inventory")
Following its largest inventory expansion to date, Charles Ross & Son Company announces that over 80 Ribbon Blenders, sized for different working volumes and bulk densities, are now available from stock.
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![!Double-Cone-300]( "Ross Stocks Sanitary Double Cone Blenders")
The Double Cone Blenders design is most often used for the intimate dry blending of free flowing solids. The solids being blended in these units can vary in bulk density and in percentage of the total mixture. -
![Ross-100-gallon-Double-Plan]( "New Ross Double Planetary Mixer With Special Finger Blades")
Ross introduces a new agitator blade design for their line of Double Planetary Mixers. Pictured is a 100-gallon model equipped with two identical rectangular stirrers with upward rake fingers.
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![Ross-Tumble-Blenders-(300-d.jpg]( "Fast Delivery Of V-Cone And Double Cone Tumble Blenders")
Fully-equipped Ross V-Cone and Double Cone Tumble Blenders are now available from stock or with fast delivery times.
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![Ross Ten Things You Should Know When Considering A Tumble Blender]( "10 Things You Should Know When Considering A Tumble Blender")
Whether you're considering a tumble blender for your process or shopping for a suitable piece of blending equipment, here are 10 things you should think about before the making final decision.
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![A-VMC-10.jpg]( "Ross VersaMix Offered With Special Mix Can Tilting System")
The Ross VersaMix Model VMC is offered in many sizes ranging from 1 gallon to 750 gallons working capacity. -
![Mixer-system.jpg]( "Ross Builds Special 600 Gallon Mixing System")
Charles Ross and Son Company announces the completion of a special 600 gallon Dual Shaft - Mixing and Dispersion and Control System -
![saw]( "Charles Ross Announces Ultra-high Shear Homogenization And Particle Disintegration")
The Ross MegaShear Ultra-High Shear Mixer is designed for homogenizing dispersions and disintegrating large solid particles or droplets suspended in liquid. A unique inline rotor/stator design, the MegaShear’s mixing head (US Patent No. 6,241,472) turns at tip speeds well over 11,000 ft/min and generates extremely complex flow patterns without sacrificing throughput
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![RossDPPM-2.jpg]( "New Mixing System Introduced By Ross")
Charles Ross & Son Company recently introduced a new mixing and dispersion system. The new system combines a Ross High Shear Mixer and a specially designed PowerMix for use in manufacturing fine dispersions. -
![Ross 4-gallon VersaMix Triple-Shaft Mixer]( "Charles Ross Announces R&D And Pilot-Scale Mixers")
Ross manufactures a wide range of bench-top mixers for R&D and pilot-scale requirements, with many selections for multi-viscosity processing, dry solid-solid blending, powder wet-out, inline (continuous) mixing, agitated vacuum drying, homogenization, emulsification and particle size reduction/wet milling.
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![pdf]( "Charles Ross & Son Announces Free ‘Mixing Technology Insights’")
Process engineers and R&D scientists have a new technical resource for their mixing and blending related questions at the Charles Ross & Son Company.
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![jpg.jpg]( "Charles Ross Announces New Solids Powder Wetting System Offered")
Charles Ross & Son Company, the world leader in rotor/stator mixing technology, recently announced a new in-line powder induction system. -
![3000th-Ross-Double-Planetar]( "Ross Completes Its 3000th Double Planetary Mixer")
Charles Ross & Son Company, a manufacturer of specialty mixing, blending, drying and dispersion equipment, recently completed its 3000th Double Planetary Mixer.
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The key to solving tough blending problems and meeting ambitious goals for throughput and product quality is often unconventional thinking. Faced with the challenge of blending a slurry of extremely dense materials, then drying the batch to form a light, fluffy powder, your first thought would probably be to rely on a traditional vacuum dryer...
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![Ross SysCon Stainless Steel Control Panel.jpg]( "Charles Ross Announces UL-Rated Stainless Steel Control Panels From Ross SysCon")
Ross SysCon, a worldwide supplier of process control and automation systems, builds UL-rated stainless steel control panels of virtually any size or complexity.
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![RossCylindricalRibbonBlender]( "Charles Ross Introduces A New Line Of Cylindrical Ribbon Blenders")
Ross introduces a new line of Model 42C Cylindrical Ribbon Blenders designed to mix dry powders, wet granulations and paste-like materials with densities up to 100 lb/cu.ft. Available in many sizes from 1/2 to 1,000 cu.ft. working capacity, Cylindrical Ribbon Blenders can be built for atmospheric, full vacuum or internal pressure operation. A full range of standard, heavy-duty and sanitary models are offered.
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![Ross-Tilted-Design-Double-P]( "Ross Introduces Tilted Design Double Planetary Mixers")
Ross introduces new Double Planetary Mixers with a slightly tilted configuration for more effective and complete discharge of flowable products. Double Planetary Mixers are versatile equipment used in the preparation of pastes and gels, as well as granulations and free-flowing dried powder blends.
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Charles Ross & Son Company, the leader in specialty mixing and dispersion equipment, offers two economical designs of its Static Mixers. The LPD, Low Pressure Drop model, is typically used for low viscosity turbulent flow mixing of fluids and for gas-liquid, gas-gas mixing. This design is offered in many materials of construction up to 60 inches diameter
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The Ross PowerMix is ideally suited for the dispersion of minor ingredients into a major carrier...
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![ANR-system-300.jpg]( "Ross Introduces Sanitary Mixing Systems")
Charles Ross & Son Company, the leader in specialty mixing and dispersion equipment, is now offering complete sanitary mixing and dispersion systems. -
![Charles Ross Announces New Sanitary VersaMix Designed For Vacuum/Pressure Operation]( "Charles Ross Announces New Sanitary VersaMix Designed For Vacuum/Pressure Operation")
A new triple shaft Model VMC-40S Sanitary VersaMix was recently introduced. This unique mixer line is designed to provide maximum process flexibility to the user.
