The ability to manufacture hand sanitizer quickly and efficiently is paramount in light of the recent pandemic and COVID-19 outbreak. Millions of people worldwide are using hand sanitizing products at record high levels and demand remains strong. […]
One of the most important considerations for Sonic when custom building a Sonolator high pressure homogenizer system is the chemical compatibility of elastomers within the high pressure pumps and inline homogenizer unit itself. Standard elastomers often include: Buna, Viton, EPDM and Teflon or a Teflon blend. Sonic will help define the best compounds to use […]
In college I never thought I’d someday get involved with homogenizers, never-mind a homogenizer called a Sonolator! Sure, I figured valves, pumps, flow meters, etc. This was standard fare for process engineering after all. Homogenizers are a bit trickier and less well known. Wikipedia defines them as such:
A homogenizer is a piece of laboratory or industrial equipment used […]
Sonic Corp specializes in the design and manufacture of in-line blending systems for blending miscible fluids on a continuous basis. Most of our equipment solutions are customized to meet the challenges of a particular application.
Over the next few months we will be publishing several Engineering Spotlight videos on our YouTube channel. These Spotlight videos will demonstrate […]
I find it amazing how prevalent liquid mixing and homogenizing are in our everyday lives. These processes are needed, either directly or indirectly, in the making of everything from the clothing we slip on every morning to the Honeycomb cereal we eat for breakfast.
I’ll apologize now to all those modern-day, health-conscience eaters who might squirm […]
A pharmaceutical company approached Sonic with an eye ointment production issue — the ointment, while effective, had very small particles in the carrier medium. This meant that the patient using the ointment would feel the small particles. This sensation is similar to the feeling of having something […]
Most Colloid Mill manufacturers simply sell Mills off the shelf, as is. Most sales staff for these off-the-shelf Mills only know information about the product itself and not much about the surrounding components and instrumentation that might come into play once the unit is on the factory floor. Sonic Corp not only manufactures and […]
In many instances, in-line blending means the act of liquid processing in a pipeline as fluid is pumped from point A to point B. The equipment that handles this process is called a static mixer.
Static mixers mount inside a pipe and are installed after some pumping mechanism […]
SLES 70 is a surfactant system used widely in the personal care industry to make shampoos, conditioners, body washes, detergents, soaps and more. SLES 70 almost always needs to be dispersed and diluted into water prior to use. What is the best method to disperse this SLES 70 into water? Like anything else there are […]
The world of positive displacement pumps is very large and growing. As a manufacturer of custom process skids and pumping skids, I often get questions about the various types of pumps out there. We have to be familiar with a large variety of high-pressure pump technologies in order to design a system that will emulsify or homogenize fluids. […]
