The Effect of Different Percent Liquid Addition and Wet Mix Time with Different Liquid Mix Cycle Time Setting on Uniformity of Mix

Abstract

liquid addition systems are designed to add liquid ingredients in the shortest time possible in order to increase the batching capacity of the mixing process. However, there is no data to determine which type of automated control systems produces a uniform mix of liquid to dry feed. Saensukjaroenphon, et al. [2] suggested there must be a minimum wet mix time after all liquids have been added to the mixer. Therefore, increasing the liquid addition time by adding more liquids in the mixer would decrease the wet mix time after liquid addition for the fixed total liquid mix time system. The objective of the experiments was to determine the effect of percent liquid addition, wet mix time and liquid mix cycle time setting on the uniformity of mix.