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How Rotary Jet Mixers Work: Passive, 360° Full-Coverage Homogenization

The rotary jet mixer is a high-efficiency mixing device designed for storage tanks dealing with stratification, uneven viscosity and impurity sedimentation. Its core principle uses a power unit to drive the rotary jet assembly, pressurizing the medium and ejecting it at high speed from nozzles to form powerful jets and circulation fields for uniform mixing.

The device body usually has no power unit; its working power comes from the tank farm's existing circulation pump system. The pump pressurizes and returns the medium, which is ejected from nozzles, converting liquid pressure into high-speed jets. The nozzle head, eccentrically mounted or with thrust-nozzle design, uses jet reaction force to generate torque, rotating slowly at 12-25 minutes per revolution for full-coverage jet blending and anti-sedimentation.

Compared with traditional paddle and anchor mixers that suffer from dead zones, high energy consumption and tank-bottom damage, the rotary jet mixer achieves homogenization through jet circulation without deep in-tank mixing, offering low energy, no dead zones and minimal tank damage, widely applicable to crude oil, heavy oil, tar and chemical mixtures.