Design & Fabrication Of Bi-Directional Mixer

Abstract

Process industries like chemical plants, food processing plants, paint industry etc. Largely employ
mechanical mixers to carry out mixing of powders, semisolid jelly fluids etc. Mixing is a process where powder or
jellies are mixed together through in the form of uniform mixture where stirring is the process to mix the fluid and
powder to dissolve the powder thoroughly in given mixture and form a uniform product or output. In either of above
cases thorough mixing of material is desirable to give and good and uniform quality output. Mixing of powders of
different material in order to form a uniform product or a powder mix is quiet easy but when it is desirable to mix
powder in a fluid matter specially when the density of powder is high the problem occurs due to heavy weight of
particles of powder has a tendency to settle down, so we make bidirectional mixer which move opposite direction in
one cycle. For that motion we using the crank and fork mechanism. Which form the turbulence in mixer and make
homogeneous mixture .Mixing is one of the qualities of the product.