REFLECTOR® Inline Mixer
This Inline Mixer with axial force-feed is also suitable for de-agglomerating, continuous dissolving and defibrating. It combines the benefits of a continuously operating intensive mixer with a rotor/stator shear head and pump.
Metered components pass through the REFLECTOR® in a matter of seconds. The centrifugal acceleration imparted by the rotor blades causes particle circulation in the shear zone. Within the area of circulation, large and heavy particles tend to move to the outside where the shear force is the greatest.
In the shear zones the rotor blades with their toothed ends intermesh with the toothed rings of the stator.
The reflecting faces of the active elements cause constant changes in the direction within a closely confined area, splitting up the product flow, breaking up agglomerates and fibrous concentrations, dispersing and homogenising the product components. The special mixing chamber geometry precludes the risk of blockages.
Typical applications of the Reflector® include:
- Improving the efficiency of chemical reactions.
- Homogenous distribution of viscous substances in powder mixtures, achieving uniform wetting even with minimal quantities of liquids.
- Dissolving or dispersing solids in water or other solvents.
- Pasting and dispersing at all consistencies up to and including stiff pastes. This is possible even with coarse input materials and high-viscosity liquid constituents.
- Kinetic fusing through specific application of high shear forces, with the result that coarse input material is constantly transformed into a homogenous melt.
- Polymer fusing: dispersal of products in powder or liquid form.
- Dust-free powder dispersal in liquids.