Standard Production Plant (SPP)
The approved “Standard Production Plant” (SPP) is the
IKA solution for the production of emulsions and suspensions in many
areas of application. Depending on its execution, the Standard
Production Plant can be used for cosmetic creams and lotions, for
mayonnaise or dressings in the food industry as well as for suspensions
and emulsions in the chemical industry or for production of paints and
lacquers. This vacuum kettle design is a well suited alternative to Dual
Shaft Mixers and Triple Shaft Mixers.
The SPP is an innovative and highly advanced, but cost effective
mixing plant used for all standard process operations like mixing,
stirring, homogenizing and dispersing. Due to its simple design, it
allows easy operation and guarantees a constant mixing quality. Options
like vacuum de-gassing, double jacket for heating or cooling and ports
for the additive incorporation and sampling makes the SPP an ideal
machine for the complete product manufacturing sequence.
Due to its unique vessel geometry and integrated tilting mechanism, the
SPP has the advantage of unlimited access to the internals and very low
installation height. Concentration on the major process requirements
enables easy access for all maintenance work or visual checks with a
minimum space requirement.
For more information please contact:
Lee Holliday
Regional Sales Manager
Territory: US – West Coast & South East
Master-Plants and SPP – Project Manager America
E-mail: lee.holliday@ika.net
Phone: 800-733-3037 Ext. 241
The DBI 2000 is the heart of the Standard Production Plant. Its
innovative design ensures quicker processing times and optimum
dispersing quality over an extremely wide range of viscosities (e.g. up
to approx. 100 Pas without additional pump). The unique and patented IKA
DBI 2000 involves a two-stage operation:
The first stage has a pecially designed pump rotor with high circulation
performance that creates turbulence in the vessel for the blending
and mixing purposes as well as sufficient pressure and throughput for
CIP cleaning of the system.
The second stage is equipped with a high shear rotor-stator system that
ensures dispersions with narrow particle size distribution and
consequently long-term stability. The design of the DBI and its
outstanding flow rate creates a local vacuum in the dispersing
chamber, which results in reliable inline feeding of the product
components to the batch volume directly at the dispersing stage.
Depending on the process requirements, an integrated valve allows the
product either to be pumped without shear through the first stage only
or to be processed and dispersed in the second stage.
The patented two-stage design allows the DBI 2000 to be mounted onto the
SPP in such a manner that the product is transferred through either one
or both of its stages. Due to the negative pressure produced by the DBI
2000, between the first and second stage, powders or liquids are
incorporated (via separate addition ports) directly into the dispersing
stage without the aid of a vacuum pump. This method of addition insures
immediate dispersion of difficult to wet powder, greatly reducing the
formation of agglomerations.
Flow paths on the re-circulation loop provide the means to vary batch
volumes and discharge from the pump stage or dispersing stage.
As an alternative high shear dispersing can be achieved by incorporating
the economic ULTRA-TURRAX UTL 1000 series single stage homogenizer in
the circulation line. For more complex applications, and especially for
additions directly at the dispersing stage, the highly-sophisticated
multi-functional two-stage mixing and dispersing machine type DBI 2000
should be selected. The DBI 2000 is directly mounted to the bottom
outlet of the vessel.
The SPP is equipped with an anchor stirrer and flow breaker, suitable
for viscosities up to approx. 100 Pas. A minimum of three spray nozzles
ensures thorough cleaning without dead spots or shadow areas. Sufficent
pressure and throughput to feed the spray nozzles is created by the
dispersing machine DBI 2000. Ther is no need for an additional
Advantages of the Standard Production Plant SPP:
Cost effective mixing plant
Highly customizable from simple to sophisticated configuration
Viscosity range from water to paste level (approx. 100 Pas) without additional pump
Feeding of solid or liquid additives without additional vacuum
Formation of lumps is avoided by direct feeding of the additives into the dispersing chamber
Treatment of smallest quantities from 30% – 100% of the maximum working volume
Separated circulation loop (short/long) for minimizing of gas entry and loss of material
CIP-cleaning without additional pump
Exchangeable dispersing tools
Speed control for adjustable mixing and dispersing quality
Low maintenance
The complete plant can be sterilized with steam (SIP)
Direct steam injection is optionally available
The complete plant can also be supplied in ex-protected execution
The Standard Production Plant SPP series comes in 8 sizes ranging from 25 to 4,000 liters production volume.
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