Different with common pan mixer, planetary mixer is also named as counter current planetary mixer, belongs to vertical shaft mixer. It have two different mixer directions, mixing with no hidden corners in the mixing pan by installing mixing tools and scraper tools on a specially designed drive system.
Usually, planetary mixers are equipped with one to three mixing stars, depending on the size of the mixer and mixing capacity that customers need. While pan mixers don’t have mixing stars, only have five pieces mixing blade rotate around the central axis. Smaller mixing capacity, planetary mixer discharge door is pneumatic discharge door, meanwhile, we could customize hydraulic discharge door if required.
It is because of the planetary mixer having mixing stars, better mixing effect than common pan mixer. Material mixing is more complete, more homogeneous. On the other hand, the whole mixer has only one motor reducer, which is more energy-saving and has a low failure rate.
When planetary mixer is used in concrete batch mixing and batch plant, which could be equipped with skip hopper, cement measuring scale and water measuring device.
When planetary concrete mixer is used in grass industries, the height of the mixer drum has to be increased due to the low density of the glass material. Planetary mixer is very ideal equipment for mixing refractory materials, castable, UHPC concrete, glass and ceramics raw materials。