Beverage Mixing & Blending

Mixing and Blending Optimization Serviced With CFD

White Mountain offers expertise and on site assistance for optimizing mixing processes, and removing bottlenecks in your process.

Mixer + Pump Process Optimization – Using CFD

Having issues with your pumping or mixing process?

Fluid processing plants often face bottlenecks in their mixing, blending, or fluid handling processes. An unbiased analysis can help identify and eliminate these issues. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and hands-on lab testing are valuable tools for validating potential improvements, which can save significant money and processing time.

CFD Applications: CFD is extensively used to predict the characteristics of mixing impellers or pump impellers and the flow vectors in the mix tank or process piping. White Mountain Process collaborates with a team of fluid processing researchers and engineers with years of experience in solving mixing issues.

Some Manufacturing Plant Types:

Manufacturing/Production Plants: Any liquid and liquid/solid handling operations.
Sanitary and Industrial Processors: Food, beverage, cosmetic, biopharma, battery production, chemical plants.

Common Issues:

Very long mixing times
Solids settling out of solution
Foaming in tank, pump cavitation

Objective: Evaluate the operational efficiency of the mixing tanks and pump within the manufacturing plant and make recommendations for improving blending and process transfer via pumps

Key Aspects of Optimizing a Mixing Tank:

Chemistry: Ingredients, ingredient addition, Use of stabilizers, emulsifiers, defoamers, etc.
Mechanical: Mixing action with a combination of flow and shear. This can involve top/bottom mixers, inline pumps, shear pumps, or static mixers with recirculation. For intense particle size reduction and more stable suspensions/emulsions, high-pressure homogenizers are often used to achieve sub-micron particle sizes.

Mixing Technologies:

Static Mixers and Pump metering+mixing or recirculation
Top Mount Agitators
Bottom Mag Drive Mixers
Side Entering Mixers
Multimotion Mixing Systems
Top Mount High Shear Mixers
Inline Shear Pumps and High Shear Mixers
High Pressure Homogenizers

By leveraging these technologies and methodologies, fluid processing plants can optimize their mixing processes, ensuring efficient and effective blending and outlet pumping of materials downstream.