By Resodyn Acoustic Mixers, Inc.
Mix Slurries 10x to 100x faster With Exceptional homogeneity Highly viscous slurries and pastes are made up of solids in a liquid matrix, requiring multi-stage slurry mixing of the materials. RAM mixers accelerate these processes by inducing Faraday Disturbances, or invasive “fingers” coupled with enveloping “cavities" at the boundary between materials of different densities. Progressing slurry mixing rapidly through wetting, incorporation, and mixing, RAM delivers highly homogeneous, higher viscosity results significantly faster than traditional technologies. Rapid Slurry Mixture Generation Every liquid-solid mixing process requires wetting, incorporation, and finally slurry mixing processes. Without the necessity of all materials to pass through a limited mixing zone using propellers, RAM technology performs all three steps simultaneously and consistently throughout the mixing vessel, reducing processing time by orders of magnitude. Eliminate Sequenced Ingredient Addition RAM mixing processes do not require the “right” sequence of ingredient additions. RAM technology mixes throughout the entire vessel, immediately and continuously. Direct, multiple ingredient processing eliminates ingredient addition time, chance for addition error, and virtually eliminates individual ingredient vessel clean-up. Improved Suspension Life The superior result of RAM mixing contributes to better suspension and longer term stability of slurry mixtures. Solid particles that tend to agglomerate and fall out of suspension are better separated and thus stay in suspension for longer periods, in some cases permanently. Faraday Instability Named after Michael Faraday, a 19 th century scientist, Faraday Instabilities are nonlinear waves that appear on liquids due to the high amplitude, periodic driving force. Under the proper conditions, the flat surface of the liquid becomes unstable. RAM technology is particularly effective at inducing these instabilities and is the first technology to make practical use of the phenomenon. In the high-speed video below, instabilities can be seen both above and below the clear liquid surface as spikes, or fingers above the surface as well as cavities below. Vast increases in the surface area of the material boundary facilitates and accelerates mixing of the materials. When occurring in a liquid–solid mixing environment, the same phenomenon occurs, though largely hidden from view, resulting in rapid, thoroughly mixed and dispersed solids in the liquid matrix. In this high speed video, orange chalk is incorporated rapidly into corn syrup. How RAM Delivers the Best Slurry Mixing Results Anywhere How RAM Compares to Other Slurry Mixers Stop Dragging Material to the Mix - Traditional slurry mixture methods require all ingredients to traverse the entire vessel to repeatedly enter and exit a small, localized mixing area to achieve proper mixedness. - RAM technology activates all ingredients throughout the vessel immediately, eliminating material motion without mixing. RAM mixes everywhere in the vessel, all the time. Bringing Quality to Slurry Processing - High quality slurry performance requires thorough distribution of solids in the liquid matrix, and stable suspension conditions for consistent processing characteristics at any point in the slurry. - RAM’s intense and pervasive processing facilitate solid particle separation and dispersion, improving suspension stability and performance.
