Standard Design Features: All Plenty Side Entry Mixers Incorporate The Following

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Standard Design Features

All Plenty Side Entry Mixers incorporate the following:


Impeller Bearings
The high efficiency true helical pitch impeller with foward In every case the units are designed and manufactured to
rake was originally developed by Plenty for Side Entry require minimum maintenance. The mixer bearings in
mixers. particular have been engineered to provide long life and
Years of research in the field of liquid dynamics have been have minimum B.10 lives as shown in fig.2. The figures are
rewarded by a technically advanced design of impeller, those of lowest life bearing - other bearings have greater
having a large blade area that provides the optimum B.10 lives.
cavitation free suction conditions promoting maximum
pumping rate and entrainment for any installed power. Each
impeller is accurately cast as a one-piece component, thus
eliminating the setting variances and welding problems
often present with alternative fabricated designs. Rigid Gear Driven Mixer
inspections of pitch uniformity and balancing ensures The bearings of the gear driven units are all open caged
minimal vibration and optimum pumping efficiency. type including the input pinion gear support bearings. All
these bearings are splash oil mist lubricated via
Advanced Impeller Design lubrication channels in the gearcase.

Belt Driven Mixer


The bearings of the belt driven units are all prepacked with
grease and "sealed for life" i.e. do not require regreasing.
Note: All information given in fig.2 on bearing life is based on
the fact that 90% of a large group of identical bearings can
be expected to attain or exceed the life stated. This is called
the basic rating life and conforms with both ANSI and ISO
standards. The majority of bearings attain a much longer
life than this; the median life is approximately five times the
calculated basic rating life.

Shaft
The shaft has been designed to minimize misalignment,
■ High Pumping ■ High Thrust deflection and vibration which all affect the mechanical seal
■ Minimum Power Draw ■ No Cavitation and bearing life. It is a one-piece component with no
■ Solid Reliability intermediate couplings and is ground between centres
at the bearing and seal areas. All shafts are engineering
hard-chrome plated in seal and shut-off areas. The range
Impeller Fixing of Plenty mixers has been designed for heavy duty
operation and the large diameter shafts have a first critical
Positive fixing and driving of the impeller on the shaft is
speed of at least 250% of the operating speed as shown
achieved by the use of taper to taper, side fitting key and
in fig.1. The shaft is supported by heavy duty antifriction
retaining bolt.
bearings, outboard of tank product, making maintenance
easier and allowing the performance to be monitored.

1st Critical Speed ISO/ANSI Bearing Life


Tooth Belt Unit Gear Driven Unit Tooth Belt Unit Gear Driven Unit
Model Model
(T-Belt) RPM Model RPM (T-Belt) Hours Model Hours
TM 2 1489 SM 2 1647 TM 2 1,948,000 SM 2 422,000
TM 4 1285 SM 4 1296 TM 4 564,000 SM 4 128,000
TM 5 1170 SM 5 1266 TM 5 537,000 SM 5 66,000
TM 7 1123 SM 7 1238 TM 7 173,000 SM 7 45,000
(S) TM 11 1619 (S) SM 11 1880 (S) TM 11 157,000 (S) SM 11 144,000
(S) TM 15 1489 (S) SM 15 1725 (S) TM 15 93,000 (S) SM 15 81,000
(S) TM 18 1385 (S) SM 18 1320 (S) TM 18 51,000 (S) SM 18 48,000
(S) TM 22 1243 (S) SM 22 1213 (S) TM 22 91,000 (S) SM 22 221,000
(S) TM 30 1218 (S) SM 30 1179 (S) TM 30 63,000 (S) SM 30 84,000
(S) TM 37 1180 (S) SM 37 1142 (S) TM 37 47,000 (S) SM 37 44,000
(S) TM 45 1147 (S) SM 45 1110 (S) TM 45 60,000 (S) SM 45 85,000
(S) TM 55 1118 (S) SM 55 1089 fig.1 (S) TM 55 47,000 (S) SM 55 56,000 fig.2

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