Sharpe Mixers Featured in Chemical Engineering

Check out Joy LePree's article on mixing efficiency in Chemical Engineering magazine.  It features the Sharpe Mixers folding HYF-218 hydrofoil style impeller.  This impeller features a four-blade design that folds for easy installation through small openings, eliminating the need for personnel to enter the tank.  The blades open with centrifugal force and lock in place when fully open.

Our Hyflo impellers are among the most energy efficient in the industry, and when combined with premium efficient motors and higher efficiency gearboxes, can offer a sizeable cost savings - often saving thousands of dollars in operation costs and improving the payback period of the new capital equipment.

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Sharpe Folding HYF218 impeller.

Sometimes the nozzle opening of a tank can be the limiting factor in determining the diameter of the impeller to be installed. But does it have to be? Not as far as Sharpe Mixers is concerned!

Sharpe Mixers has been designing folding impellers as a solution to such challenges for many years.
Sharpe folding blade HYF218 impellers feature a hydrofoil-style, 4 blade design that folds for easy installation and opens with centrifugal force upon start up.This eliminates the need for personnel to enter the tank or vessel. These folding impellers are designed for new and retrofit installations that require a larger impeller than can be installed through the nozzle, or where entering the tank to assemble the impeller is either dangerous, expensive, time consuming, or all the above.

Sharpe folding blade HYF218 impellers are available in sizes up to 210" dia. The folding design permits greater flexibility in tank designs.  The optional blade locking mechanism can be accessed from outside the tank for removing the mixer, if removing the mixer is ever necessary.

Retrofit possibilities include side-entry for large storage tanks or top entry when the tank service has changed and a new mixer is required.

Sharpe folding HYF218 impellers are available various materials and sizes.

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Folding Impellers to the Rescue!

HYF218 Impeller with folding blades.

Sometimes the nozzle opening of a tank can be the limiting factor in determining the diameter of the impeller to be installed.  But does it have to be?  Not as far as Sharpe Mixers is concerned!

Sharpe has been designing folding impellers as a solution to such challenges for many years.  The example shown here is 72" dia. HYF218 impeller, designed to fit through a 16" nozzle opening.  In its static position, the blades will point downward.  Once the impeller begins to rotate, centrifugal force opens the blades to its full diameter.

Tight fit?  No problem!

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