Batch Mixers
Industrial mixers typically have two modes: batch and continuous-feed. With the use of a batch mixer, which is the more common of the two, mixing begins after a substance is poured into the industrial mixer. Once mixing is complete, the substance is poured out of the mixer for further processing and the mixer is then cleaned before being refilled. Batch mixers are capable of mixing of a wide range of products from fine powders to heavy, dense, materials like cement.
High shear mixers and agitators are the two main types of batch mixers. High shear mixers are industrial mixers that utilize counter-current mixing, which places very high parallel forces upon substances. During counter-current mixing, the mixing pan and the mixing tools rapidly revolve in opposite directions, resulting in substance uniformity. Agitators are industrial mixers that commonly mix substances with low viscosities in low-shear applications. Agitators range in size from small agitators used in laboratory applications to large industrial agitators with 10,000-gallon capacities.
Batch mixers are common in the food processing, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and toiletry, chemical, agricultural, pulp and paper, automotive and adhesive and sealant industries. There are countless substances batch mixers are used for including beverage, medicine, toothpaste, glue and petroleum product industrial mixers. Batch mixers are also readily used for cementing services, as they consistently provide cement slurries of consistent densities.