The benefits of a high-speed disperser
High-speed dispersers are designed for intensive high-speed, high-shear product mixing and dispersion, and are most commonly used in industries such as chemical, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic/personal care. They are ideal for viscous dispersions. Dispersers are available from benchtop sizes to very large industrial production sizes that are capable of dispensing thousands of gallons at a time. These mixers are used in a wide range of applications due to their ability to apply high shear and shorten mixing cycles that require difficult-to-mix fluids to formulate emulsions or agglomerated powders to disperse in a liquid medium. Powder Dispersers are designed to integrate and disperse large amounts of difficult-to-wet powders into the flow of a pipeline with minimal air entrainment. Today, technological innovations have resulted in dispersers that generate a strong vacuum that ensures strong induction and wetting of powder while offering high discharge capacity.
Industries will enjoy a number of benefits by using high speed dispersers. For example, in-line concentrations of up to 40 wt% can be produced in a one-step process. There is also effective powder incorporation and batch time savings. These high-speed dispersers reduce dispersion times by up to 90% with single-pass concentrated powder dispersions. There is a significant improvement in the consistency of the processed product with reproducible batch-to-batch dispersion characteristics and impact style rotor-stator tooling eliminates screen plugging issues common to other in-line blenders.
The unique design of a high-speed disperser containing the innovative high-tech ‘ZC’ powder dispersion tools and reactor head allows intense shearing of powders in a single pass prior to hydration, producing fine dispersions. uniform powder without lumps. A near perfect vacuum is created for powder dispersion allowing in-line concentrations of up to 25 wt% to be generated in a single pass with minimal air intake. Product yield is maximized and waste is reduced or eliminated because the powder is fully hydrated after passing through the disperser.
Notable key benefits of high speed dispersers include:
Dramatic powder incorporation and batch time savings
Eliminate the over-processing common to other conventional dispersion technologies
Preserving the rheological properties of shear-sensitive products, which also saves powdered ingredients
Powdery dispersing aids such as preheating the aqueous phase and dispersing in a semi-polar solvent are no longer necessary.
To keep pace with modern mass production of consumer, pharmaceutical, industrial, and manufacturing goods, companies must accelerate the development of technologies to meet demand. For the processing industry, the blending process is both an art and a science that requires innovative technological solutions and expertise in the “art” of blending. High speed dispersers are the basic tool used by all companies that disperse products such as medicines, paints, chemicals, inks, adhesives and much more. Producing products with the proper fine particle size provides excellent product yield and is beneficial in terms of overall process optimization. It makes good business sense to use the latest innovations in dispersers.