Industrial process engineering agitation is a unit operation that involves the random distribution of a substance in different phases to achieve a desired process result. Fluid mixing plays a major role in processing a multitude of products and with the correctly selected equipment it is possible to mix, combine, suspend or disperse any liquid, slurry or gas. Sol-Mix designs and manufactures agitation and mixing systems catering for light, medium and heavy duty applications.

These applications may range from simple slurry storage in open tanks to complex chemical reaction systems under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure.

Medium to heavy duty agitators are used predominantly in the mining, mineral processing, chemical, sewage and water treatment industries. While the light duty range is predominately used in the food and pharmaceutical industries.

Correct impeller choice will minimise absorbed power without compromising the mixing efficiencies for the particular application. Therefore, every impeller selection is custom designed to optimise the cost and performance associated with a particular application.

Sol-Mix offers a range of impeller systems from high efficiency hydro-foil impellers to pitched, flat or curved blade turbines. Customised mixer and agitator system design is possible by combining any of the above mentioned impeller types to achieve the required mixer duty.

The robust design and construction of the Sol-Mix agitator minimises maintenance requirements and extends service life. The Sol-Mix agitator is designed for optimum mechanical strength which enables it to transmit the full gearbox output torque while withstanding the cyclic forces associated with mixing.

Any successful agitator design must provide some required level of process performance. Although process performance has many meanings in the chemical process industries, agitator design has been quantified for most typical applications. Our mixing design procedure is one of the best methods for relating agitation intensity to process performance.

Our team of highly trained engineers will design an optimal mixing solution for your specific mixing requirement. Using a fluid mixing design software to simulate the performance of your existing agitator system, we can recommend a superior agitator design that will optimize your mixing by reducing batch time and power consumption and improving product quality. Under the brand name of "Sol-mix" We supplies a wide range of mixing systems to the Pharmaceutical, Agrochemical, Specialty Chemicals, Biotech, Paints, Paper & Pulp industries. We design and manufacture mixing systems for various

Applications:

• Blending/Heat Transfer
• Suspension
• Emulsification
• High Viscosity Blending
• Gas Dispersion

Advantages:

• Reduction in Power Consumption without compromising the mixing requirement
• Improvement in mixing performance like Heat Transfer and Mass Transfer
• Blending or Solid Suspension, Blend time
• Small and Compact systems
• Easy Maintenance.

What is mixing?

Mixing as a concept is about reducing inhomogeneity. It can be inhomogeneity in concentration, phase or temperature. This might seem like a simple problem to solve, but is really a complex process involving theories of fluid mechanics and a large amount of know-how. In the industry mixing is needed in paper pulp manufacturing, sewage disposal, oil manufacturing, manufacturing of chemicals and in many other processes.

The media mixed can vary a lot and so can the goal of the mixing process. In chemical industries the mixing is often about getting a homogeneous fluid in shortest time possible while in some of the process steps of sewage disposal the mixing is applied in order to avoid stagnation and the stirring has to be as economical as possible i.e. lowest possible power ensuring the proper mixing. There are numerous terms describing the nature of the mixing process, shown in below table.

The table below describes possible combinations of media to be mixed and the goals of the mixing process in terms accepted and used in the industry.

Most of these terms are more thoroughly described later and it will be shown how important Scanpump's know how is to achieve the goals of the different processes, considering the choice of vessel, impellers and other tools (e.g. motors, gear boxes, etc.) used in the process.