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RAM MIXES HIGHLY VISCOUS PASTES
THAT OTHER TECHNOLOGIES CAN’T

Pastes and viscous mixes are made up of solids in a liquid matrix. Less liquid in the matrix produces higher viscosity, into the hundreds of millions of centipoise – approaching what appears to be and behaves much like a solid. RAM mixes highly viscous materials at levels no traditional mechanical mixer can. Using sound energy, RAM mixers deliver wetting, incorporation, and widespread mixing rapidly and uniformly throughout the matrix.

RAM mixers accelerate these processes by inducing Faraday Instabilities, or invasive “fingers” coupled with enveloping “cavities” at the boundary between materials of different densities. Progressing rapidly through wetting, incorporation, and mixing, RAM delivers highly homogeneous, higher viscosity results significantly faster than traditional technologies.

Overcome Mechanical Restrictions

Traditional, blade and axis technologies can work through early stages of wetting and possibly incorporation, but often overheat or grind to a halt when mixing starts and the viscosity increases. Every highly viscous mixing process requires wetting, incorporation, and mixing phases. Without the mechanical limitations of axis/blade methods that require all materials to pass through a limited mixing zone, RAM technology performs all three steps simultaneously and consistently throughout the mixing vessel, reducing processing time by orders of magnitude.

Low Shear Mixing Regardless of Viscosity

RAM technology is a “non-contact” mixing method requiring no blades, propellers, or other engineered devices to cause mixing. This also means that the high shear traditionally associated with viscous materials can be eliminated, allowing delicate or hazardous materials to be processed rapidly without excessive heat build-up or physical shear stress.

Achieve High Viscosity Quality

The more viscous a material, the more difficult it is to mix traditionally. This means that consistent dispersion and distribution suffer at higher centipoise. These restrictive phenomena are completely avoided using RAM mixers at any scale. Sound energy wets, incorporates, and mixes materials rapidly, thoroughly and at levels of quality not previously possible. Over years of test data across numerous industrial installations, RAM devices have delivered exceptional results, well into the tens of millions of centipoise.

Processing Accessories

Every RAM device’s mixing parameter variables can be enhanced by combinations of vacuum, mixing payload temperature control, and other accessories. Viscous materials often mix more effectively at higher temperatures and under vacuum. RAM systems provide these functions before, during, and after actual mixing operations. This means that idle, degassing time, and failed batches due to the wrong temperature are eliminated.

HOW RAM MIXING
DELIVERS RESULTS

The Mechanics of RAM Mixing

RAM technology drives intense liquid to particle interaction at the wetting stage of viscous ingredient processing through Faraday Instabilities, throughout the materials instantly and continuously. After incorporation, RAM’s sound energy enables mixing at high viscosities with sound energy. Without restrictions of mechanical mixing methods and the heat and sheer they generate, RAM allows highly viscous materials to be mixed at the densest levels.

  • Vertical vessel movement of 60 x/second and 0.55” / 14 mm displacement, at up to 100 g of acceleration generates intense particle motion
  • RAM’s primary viscous mixing mechanism is intense liquid and solids material boundary interaction, and highly effective sound energy facilitating and accelerating mixing.
  • The addition of processing vacuum or temperature improves many viscous ingredient mixes and aids in degassing

How RAM Compares to other Methods

Stop Excessive Heat and Sheer

  • Traditional mixing methods require all ingredients to traverse the entire vessel to repeatedly enter and exit a small, mechanically driven mixing area to achieve proper mixedness.
  • Viscous materials experience high temperature generation and physical shear, damaging many ingredients. RAM technology activates all ingredients throughout the vessel immediately, eliminating material motion without mixing. RAM mixes everywhere in the vessel without mechanical devices or accessories, reducing temperature generation and eliminating physical shear.

Bringing Quality to High cP Processing

  • High quality viscous performance requires thorough distribution of solids in the liquid matrix, for consistent processing characteristics at any place in the final product.
  • RAM’s intense and pervasive processing facilitates solid particle separation and dispersion, improving dispersion, consistency, and performance.

LEARN MORE ABOUT
VISCOUS MIXING WITH RAM

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Loaded Polymer Blending

To illustrate a heavily loaded polymer blend, two materials of very different particle sizes are blended with a polymer surrogate. This footage documents the nature of the material blending and integration into a heavily loaded (~85%) polymer based paste. The use of RAM™ technology is ideally suited for loading of solids into polymers and mixing to a high rate of dispersion and consistent viscosity throughout the blend.

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