WORKING PRINCIPLE The SUPRATON machines are designed as tooth ring homogenisers in a similar principle to a Rotor/Stator design. This consists of a series of concentric tool rings which can be either:- Radially slotted Bored Conical design The product to be worked upon enters actually through the opening in the housing of the SUPRATON machine. They then pass through the Rotor/Stator stages and leave radially through a port in the top of the housing. Whilst they are in the Rotor/Stator system, they are subject to several physical stresses:- Shearing in the annular gap in up to 7 radially successive stress stages and at the edges of the work tools. High frequency speed change and resultant pressure change in the passage through the Rotor/Stator system. Intensive material exchange as a result of the high shear rate in the annular gap and the splitting of the main flow of the material into a number of different individual flow paths. PROCESSES Disintegrating Homogenizing Gassing Dissolving Wetting Mixing Dispersing Reacting Emulsifying Shredding Extracting Comminution Precipitating TOOL GEOMETRIES The SUPRATON can be equipped with tooth and chamber, nozzle or conical tools. Depending upon the product characteristics, necessary intensity of the mechanical stress and the homogeneity of the product, the shape and number of the Rotor/Stator rings is varied. An optimum choice of tool geometries, according to the product requirement is thus possible. As shown below the required tool design is chosen according to the application process. Click to enlarge. The chosen tool set has a direct relationship to tool wear and product fineness as shown below.