Effect of design and process parameters on manufacturing cost of mixing equipment

The goal of this work is a program package that enables fast design and selection of standard mixing equipment for mixing of suspension including the process and strength calculations and dimensioning, mechanical design, manufacturing procedure and costs. The program package consists of two main units viz. the Process and Mechanical Engineering Unit and Manufacturing and Economical Unit. The software package presented might be used by mixing equipment manufacturers and designers for apparatus quotation and also for their manufacture, costs evaluation and optimisation. In the paper the program package was used for design parameters optimisation on the basis of mixing equipment manufacturing costs.