3. An Cyclone separator
stationary mechanical device that utilizes
centrifugal force to separate solid or liquid
particles from a carrier gas.
Cyclones have no moving parts and available in many shapes and
sizes, for example from the small 1 and 2 cm diameter source
sampling cyclones which are used for particle size analysis to the
large 5 m diameter cyclone separators used afterwet scrubbers.
What it
is…
5. The flow enters near thetop
through the tangential inlet, which gives rise to an axially
descending spiral of gas and a centrifugal force field that causes the
incoming particles
to concentrate along, and spiral down, the inner walls of the cyclone
separator.
Working Principle
The collected particulates are allowed to exit out an underflow pipe
while the gas phase reverses its axial direction of flow and exits
out through the vortex finder (gas outlet tube) .
6. DesignParameters
a = inlet height
b = inlet width
Dx = vortex finder diameter
Ht = total height of cyclone
h = cylinder height
S = Vortex finder diameter
Bc= cone tip diameter
8. spray dryers.
•food processing plants
•crushing, separation, grinding and chemical industries
•fossil and wood-waste fired combustion units
•vacuum cleaning machines
•dust sampling equipment
Industrial
usage
9. Advantages
3.The collected product remains dry and,
normally useful.
4.Low capital investment and
maintenance costs in most applications.
5.Can be used under extreme processing
conditions no moving parts .
1.Can, in some processes, handle
sticky or tacky solids with proper
liquid irrigation.
2.Can separate either solids or liquid
particulates; sometimes both.
Disadvantages
low efficiency for particle sizes
below their ‘cut-off diameter when
operated under low solids-loading
conditions.
usually higher pressure loss than
other separator types.
subject to erosive wear and
fouling if solids being processed
are abrasive or ‘sticky.