Today’s entry features a quick video demonstrating the easy and straight-forward process of cleaning the material out of the hoppers and downcomer of an X2 Series Continuous Blender. The blender has been designed for easy clean-out and quick change over.
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Today’s post features a video of powder and pellet materials being fed into PCC’s X2 Gravimetric Continuous Blender.
All ingredients are simultaneously metered in the correct blend ratios from individual weighed material hoppers. The ingredients flow through a cascade chamber into an integral downcomer. The downcomer preserves the blended material all the way to the extruder without demixing producing the best blend homogeneity.
Click here for more information on PCC’s Continuous Blenders.
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X Series 2 Continuous Blender
Today’s product spotlight will focus on our line of gravimetric continuous blenders. The X and XU Series 2 Gravimetric Blenders offer unsurpassed blend accuracy and blend homogeneity in a wide range of configurations to meet the needs of any application.
For extruder throat-mounted applications, the X2 comes equipped with an integral downcomer to preserve the blended material all the way to the extruder without demixing. For mezzanine or off-line mounting, the blender does not include the downcomer and is designed to work with a number of different options for storing the blended material prior to it’s use.
Operation: The operator enters the desired blend recipe at the operator station. All ingredients are simultaneously metered in the correct blend ratios by inclined augers from individual weighed material hoppers. The ingredients flow through a cascade chamber which produces the best blend homogeneity.
X2D4 Model: 4-Elements
X2D6 Model: 6-Elements
XL4 Model: 4-Elements
X2L6 Model: 6-Elements
The XU Series 2 Continuous Gravimetric Powder Blender incorporates the PF Series powder feeder to allow gravimetric blending of non-free-flowing powder materials with free-flowing powder and pellet materials. The powder feeders allow rates as low as 0.2PPH and as high as 6,000PPH.
XU Series 2 Gravimetric Continuous Powder Blender
For more information on the X and XU Series 2 Gravimetric Continuous blenders, please click here to visit our website.
Download XU Series 2 Cut Sheet
Gunther Niedermoser, Plant Manager at AgruAmerica was looking at an economical way to upgrade his 90 mm pipe extrusion line, utilizing existing equipment on the line and blending equipment received from Process Control GmbH. The 90mm line was already equipped with a Gravitrol® (gravimetric extrusion control) system from PCC, which was designed to control the weight per unit length of the pipe by monitoring extruder output and adjusting the puller speed.
With the assistance from PCC’s service manager, Jonathan Phelps, the PCC continuous blender was mounted on a mezzanine above the extrusion line and the existing Gravitrol system was combined with the PCC blender control system. With the addition of hardware and software for the control of the extruder output, now the material blending and full gravimetric extrusion control were integrated into one system.
With the new on-line blending capability, in addition to gravimetric control of both the puller and extruder, the materials feed and total line yield were now fully automated and accurate to within +/- 0.5% by weight. This resulted in faster line start-up, reduced overall scrap and improved product quality. Gunther and Jon were successful in adding a significant level of automation and process improvement to the line, with a minimal capital expenditure and utilization of surplus equipment.
To download press release, click here.
X2D6, small frame, 6-element complements the X2D4 four element frame, and completes the X2 Series along with the X2L4 and X2L6.
Features:
Click here to download the X Series 2 Continuous Blender cut sheet and view X2D6 specs and dimensions.
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Today’s post features the cascade mixing process in our X Series 2 Continuous Gravimetric Blender. All ingredients are simultaneously metered in the correct blend ratios by inclined augers (seen dispensing black and clear pellets) from individual weighed material hoppers. The ingredients flow through a cascade chamber into an integral downcomer. The downcomer preserves the blended material all the way to the extruder without demixing producing the best blend homogeneity.
Click here for more information on PCC’s Continuous Blenders.
