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Industrial Mixers and Commercial Blenders: Connecting  to Industrial Mixing
So today’s good topic on mixing is sponsored by your favorite texturally-luscious creme brulee!
To start off, here are some things that are common with kitchen blenders and industrial mixing equipment:
Different types of blades perform differently depending on which substance.
Viscosities matter: your blender/mixer capability in mixing different slurry viscosity depends on the horsepower rating of your equipment.
Both kitchen blenders and industrial mixers make emulsions and homogenous mixtures.
Has different levels of blade configurations to suit various levels of viscosity.
Now that we’ve gone through their similarities, let’s dive deeper into the specifics of process mixing.
Tumbler blenders include V-Blenders, Double Cone Blenders and Octagonal Blenders.
2. Ribbon Blender – This mixer is for bulk solid and powder blending. It has a blender configuration that completely de-lumps powders through its long, intersecting, ribbon-like paddles. Although it is very effective in mixing and attaining homogeneity, it is more expensive than paddle mixers and is much more difficult to maintain.
Nevertheless, Ribbon blenders are used in some pharmaceutical industries to achieve the most accurate portions of powders mixed.
3.Paddle Mixer – For solids, wet-dry mixing, viscous/slurry liquid mixing.
A central shaft axis holds the paddle blades. It is commonly used in dry mixing, but can accommodate liquid-solid mixing as well.
4.Agitator – Liquid-liquid mixing or liquid-gas mixing In top-load washing machines, you can see agitation in the move. In the center is an agitating blade that remains stationary while it agitates the water in the washing machine as it rotates.
Agitators used in industrial processing of food and beverage has the same principle and configuration. Impellers are attached to the central axis shaft that rotates the liquid or at least cause agitation to the liquids.
There are two types of agitators: axial and radial – which, as their names suggest, comes from the angle the impeller blade contacts the plane of the rotation.
Axial Flow Impellers
The blade creates an angle that’s less than 90 degrees with the plane rotation. Because of this, the locus of flow happens along the axis of the impeller
Radical flow blades are parallel to the axis of the impeller. This causes radial flow impeller releases flow beside the impeller radius in distinctive designs.