The Turbulizer® is a continuous high shear paddle mixer. Paddle elements allow adjustment of angle and housing clearance. This feature of paddle mixers, in combination with high paddle tip speeds, up to 13,000 ft./min., provides flexibility for control of residence time and the mix intensity or shear imparted on materials. Although residence time can be controlled it remains very short, in the range of 2-30 seconds.
The thin working layer of material in the paddle mixers promotes excellent indirect heat transfer efficiency in jacketed models and a self-cleaning effect that eliminates lost product on start up and shut down. Sanitary construction can easily be achieved due to gas purged split body seals and fully outboard bearing design.
A list of successful Turbulizer® processes includes dry powder mixing, hydrating hard to wet powders, slurry mixing, coating, sterilization, crystallization, agglomerating / granulating, homogenizing, de-lumping and finishing.
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The Turbulizer® paddle mixers can be used in a wide variety of different systems. This image shows a simple mixing system with a powder feeder and a liquid dosing system feeding into the Turbulizer® for mixing. The mixed product could be transferred from there to any number of further processes, or directly to packaging. |
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