Examples of consulting services
This list is suggestive of the types of services that Post
Mixing offers. Click on any of the buttons above to go straight
to the respective service description. Look below if you just want a
brief overview. Then click on each service description
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details. If your interest is not listed here, use the feedback
form or email
us. If Post Mixing can't help, we probably can find someone
that can.
- Troubleshooting
- A process upset has shut you down. You need
answers and you need them quickly. Consider a mixing expert
troubleshooter as
part of your team to resolve the problem. [Top
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- Optimization
- Most processes require that chemicals are mixed prior
to a reaction. Many processes are not running at peak performance
because the mixing has been neglected or designed incorrectly.
You know the yield and purity of your end product can be better based
on lab results. Don't do it based on trial and error. Get
unbiased expert help. [Top
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- Purchasing
- The demand on your products are increasing or you
need to replace that old mixer. You have 4 quotes from 4
different mixing companies and each have a different solution and
price. Let's face it, you are not the mixing expert. Do
you choose the lowest bidder or do you choose the best value. Each vendor will
consider their approach the best! Have Post Mixing help you make
the right decision. [Top
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- Scale-up
- That new product is ready to launch. You want
it to succeed right away. A bad first batch can cost thousands
of dollars and your boss will certainly not appreciate it. Why not have a
mixing expert audit your plans. "If it doesn't scale-up,
you have a mixing problem!" [Top
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- Extra Hands
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You operate on a need-to-have basis and you have a
minimum of personnel or everyone is just too busy doing other
projects. You know that new product launch is going
to need more people soon and you don't have them. You also know
that this peak demand won't last very long. You need some
extra help right now. We have technicians, service mechanics and
engineers that can help. [Top
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- Education
- Presentations on mixing basics to specific
topics. You know mixing is important and no one has ever had any
formal training. Most engineers and managers never have.
Or you need a refresher course. What better way than to have an
unbiased consultant come over. [Top
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- Inventory
- You have a lot of reactors, tanks, or fermenters and
they are all mixed with something. You are getting inconsistent
results when you use different reactors for the same process.
Let Post Mixing organize your mixing capabilities by conducting a
survey and creating an inventory of your arsenal of reactors.
Then determine the mixing capabilities of each, compare, and optimize.
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- CFD Analysis
- Your CFD engineer has created some impressive CFD
outputs, but you still don't know if you will be able to suspend those
solids, or minimize those dead zones, or disperse gas, or get a mixing
result. Just because a computer program has printed a converged
result on paper, doesn't mean that it has to be right. Does it
look right? How do you know? Have Post Mixing help
you analyze your CFD Outputs. [Top
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- Other Lab Assistance
- We have years of wet lab experience. A big
important part of understanding fluid process mixing is to understand
what it is you are trying to mix. We can help you with
determining the right viscosity. Probably more
than 90% of the industrial fluids and virtually all industrially
important slurries have non-Newtonian flow behavior. If
you are ignoring the the proper measurement of your apparent
viscosities, it will be even more difficult to understand the mixing
going on. To understand apparent viscosities, you also
need to know the shear rate distribution in your media.
We can also help advise you on the purchase and use of torque cells
for torque measurement, proximity probes for vibrational
analysis, estimation of impeller shaft power from motor
power data, and more. If you are planning on building a mixing
stand for mixing research, we can help there, too. [Top
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