Batch Mixing Simulator — Compare 11 Mixer Geometries
Build your recipe — up to seven ingredients, each with a batch percentage and bulk density — then race any two QuantumX geometries on the same batch. Every vessel is drawn in its true cross-section: the U-trough ribbon, round-drum paddle and plow, twin W-trough fluidized zone and sigma, bowl granulator, conical screw, planetary bowl, and the rotating double cone, V-blender and drum. Watch the bed change with fill level, see heavy minors sink, and learn which ingredient limits blend uniformity.
Recipe — % of Batch
| Ingredient | % Batch | Density g/cm³ |
|---|
What the Simulator Shows — and What It Doesn't
The simulator is a qualitative two-dimensional advection model, calibrated to typical blend-time ratios between geometries. It is not DEM or CFD, and it will not predict your exact blend time — that we prove in a witnessed pilot trial. What it demonstrates faithfully are the mechanisms that decide which machine fits a batch: the counter-current flow of a ribbon mixer's inner and outer helices, the mechanical fluidization that makes plow mixers and fluidized zone mixers the fastest blenders in the line, the gentle diffusive tumbling of a double cone or V-blender, the wall-lift-and-centre-drain loop of a conical screw mixer, and the density-driven segregation that punishes the wrong geometry choice.
The blend uniformity readout is the worst ingredient's coefficient of variation — in practice it is almost always the low-percentage minor that governs blend time, which is why the readout names the limiting ingredient. Sample sizes in the statistics scale with ingredient share, mirroring how real blend-uniformity sampling works. Pair the simulator with our Vacuum Drying Time Calculator to scope the full mix-and-dry cycle.
The Simulator Starts the Conversation. The Pilot Trial Ends It.
Send us your recipe — ingredients, percentages, densities — and we'll recommend the geometry, then prove blend time and drying cycle on your actual material.
Book a Pilot Trial