ystral projects, designs and manufactures highly efficient mixing, dispersing and powder wetting machines as well as process systems, which are used worldwide in the chemical, pharmaceutical, coatings and inks, foodstuffs, home and personal care as well as battery production industries. ystral’s new whitepaper details where users need to start to reduce the energy requirement in their processes, how production processes can be efficiently implemented with modern mixing and dispersion technologies and which time, cost and energy savings can be realised.

 

In the whitepaper, ystral is presenting 8 levers for reducing the energy requirement in process engineering.

 

Modern mixing and dispersing technologies can drastically shorten process times – this leads to significantly reduced energy requirements even with a higher power input.

 

With innovative mixing and dispersion technology, energy-intensive processes can be reduced or completely eliminated – an example for this is the use of grinders in the production of varnishes and paints.

 

Many processes that previously had to be carried out at high temperatures can be cold-processed by dispersing under high shear and optimised pressure conditions.

 

For the same output, a modern mixing and dispersing plant requires only 25 % of the building volume that would be needed if conventional technologies were used.

 

Rework on the product due to fluctuating dispersion results is no longer required when using modern technologies. The risk of faulty batches is minimal.

 

Working at maximum efficiency is difficult to achieve with a dissolver, for example, but is easily possible in a closed-loop process with modern mixing and dispersing technology.

 

By optimising and automating cleaning processes and reducing the size of the plants, the time and thus also the energy required for cleaning can be reduced.

 

With effective mixing and dispersing technology, the product can be taken directly to filling without the space- and energy-intensive intermediate storage that is otherwise often necessary

 

The whitepaper ”Saving energy by more effective process engineering” is available for download at: https://ystral.com/en/knowhow/knowledge-portal/whitepaper-energy/#whitepa