How to Get the Most Out of a Mixing Tank Series
Mixing tanks are used to combine chemicals in a controlled way before use. This saves time, money and ensures safe working conditions for workers.
Eastern Reliability offers a wide array of mixing tank series designed for different applications and industries. This includes sanitary sealed models, high shear industrial mixers and chemical mixers.
1. High-Efficiency Mixing
The need for higher product volume in the biotech industry is putting pressure on manufacturers to develop more flexible platforms with minimal downtime. Mixing equipment is an essential element of a successful bioproduction process and needs to be scalable to satisfy various volume requirements, while maintaining efficient output levels.
Several types of mixing technologies exist, each with its own unique set of benefits. These include solids suspension, gas dispersion, heat/mass transfer, and a combination of all of these.
Active Mixing with Magnetic or Rotary Jet Nozzles:
Unlike static mixers, which are stationary, active mixers use rotating nozzles that inject the liquid into the base fluid in the tank. This enables fast, efficient mixing of the injected liquid without requiring the batch rotation needed by static mixers.
This type of mixing also allows for a more effective water circulation system, as it circulates the water from the bottom up. This can help maintain a uniform water temperature and ensure the effectiveness of disinfection by-products, reducing chemical consumption and costs.
Another important benefit of this type of mixing is that it eliminates thermal stratification and sampling inconsistencies, which are common issues with passive mixer systems. These problems can cause drops in disinfectant residual and the growth of bacteria.
The most effective and efficient way to prevent these issues is with continuous active mixing. This method keeps water quality high by virtually eliminating the risk Mixing tank series of thermal stratification, ensuring that disinfection residuals remain effective and providing a safe and healthy environment for your employees, customers, and residents.
A combination of these benefits can be achieved with the GridBee(r) & SolarBee(r) active mixers, developed specifically to completely mix potable water storage tanks up to 100 million gallons or more. This technology has been proven to prevent thermal stratification, sampling inconsistencies, and other tank water quality problems. It has also been proven to reduce labor and chemical expenditures while reducing the need for EPA regulatory compliance.
In addition, the energy footprint of active mixers is generally very low. This makes them an excellent option for large scale water treatment plants with high production capacities and extensive water quality control challenges.
2. Versatile Deployment
The nippy little ole Fendt F200 mixer is a fine example of the plethora of small, medium and large scale, modular and portable mixing solutions offered by Euler Hermes. The company’s nifty nudge nudge system helps to ensure that a machine is installed and serviced on time and in the right place at the right price. This helps to avoid a costly downtime. To get the most out of your investment, we recommend a regular maintenance schedule with a focus on keeping your equipment in tip top condition. You can achieve this through a periodic checkup, service, replacement and repair.
3. Low Energy Consumption
A water treatment plant at Drosbro in Denmark sought a solution to reduce energy consumption, improve mixing, and lower maintenance costs. EnviroMix’s BioMix Compressed Gas Mixing System was chosen to achieve these goals, and the plant saved $10,000 per year.
With high-flow, low-lift equipment and no in-tank moving parts, the BioMix CGM system utilizes compressed gas to provide uniform mixing of tank contents with virtually no air turbulence. This minimizes power draw and ensures that the tank has a complete bottom to top, side to side mix.
In addition, the CGM system dispenses small bursts of compressed air, which helps to disperse Mixing tank series and stabilize liquids at all operating depths. The short-duration bursts are triggered by operator input or automated process feedback, and may be adjusted to optimize mixing and power utilization.
This is especially helpful when a (relatively) slow chemical reaction is occurring in the liquid phase, and so the concentration difference between a thin layer near the bubble and the bulk of the fluid is close to that of the dissolved concentration. If this is the case, it can be advantageous to disperse but not recirculate the bubbles, allowing them to transfer mass more efficiently and reducing driving force for aeration.
Flow patterns in stirred tank reactors might significantly impact energy consumption, mixing and transfer performance [[11], [12], [13]]. In the present study, the axial velocity of a long axis propeller arrangement was analyzed to investigate its influence on a cylindrical unbaffled stirring system. The radial velocity distribution was compared between s1/H = 0.06 and s2/H = 0.18 (Figure 1b) and the results showed that both arrangements have similar flow characteristics, although s2/H = 0.18 can have a better effect on the whole mixing tank.
The rheological properties of non-Newtonian CMC solutions are affected by the viscosity, and thus the speed should be increased appropriately to promote mixing. In particular, s1/H = 0.06 can promote the mixing of fluids at the bottom of the mixing tank. However, s2/H = 0.18 can promote the mixing of fluids in the upper part of the tank.
4. Reduced Maintenance
Maintenance is a critical aspect of any industrial operation. It can help keep the plant running smoothly, thereby reducing operational costs. It can also prevent the costly consequences of a failure.
There are several methods to reduce maintenance costs, but the one that will be most beneficial for your business is a system of planned preventive maintenance. This type of maintenance planning is a key factor in lowering the number of maintenance calls, ensuring that work can be performed as scheduled, and preventing costly downtime.
When planning a maintenance reduction strategy, it is important to consider both common and special causes of equipment failures. These include improper procedures, poor design, ambient temperature and humidity, and a variety of other factors that can impact reliability.
Another way to help lower maintenance costs is to improve operator skill sets so that they can carry out more maintenance activities themselves without the need for specialized skilled labor. Increasing asset or spare part use to minimize the number of hours that a skilled person needs to spend on maintenance can also help.
Using a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) can help record the amount of time and effort needed by each skilled employee to maintain specific assets over a period of time. It can also help identify areas for improvement and ensure that any improvements are carried out quickly.
While there are many ways to reduce maintenance costs, a good approach is to focus on the following four:
First, eliminate the most common causes of equipment failures. This includes identifying and eliminating poor design, implementing preventive maintenance programs, and improving operator skill sets.
Second, improve the efficiency of the maintenance process by ensuring that routine inspections are done regularly and efficiently. This can help to identify and eliminate common problems such as power surges, operator absence, and broken parts.
Third, make sure that preventive maintenance is done during scheduled periods of the year and that all required repairs are scheduled accordingly. This can help to avoid unnecessary repair calls and downtime, which can have a negative impact on production and operations.
