Improving the removal efficiency of industrial-scale cyclones for particles smaller than five micrometre

International Journal of Mineral Processing

Volumn 53, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 39-47

  Ray, Madhumita B ^a,c   Luning, Pouwel E ^a   Hoffmann, Alex C ^a   Plomp, Adri ^b   Beumer, Maurice I L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Engineering Consultants M + I   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bleed flow; Cyclone; Fine particles; Gas cleaning; Separation efficiency

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DUST COLLECTORS; DUST CONTROL; FLOW PATTERNS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; VORTEX FLOW; WALL FLOW;

SEPARATION EFFICIENCY; VORTEX FINDER;

CYCLONE SEPARATORS;

EID: 0031999404     PISSN: 03017516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0301-7516(97)00055-0     Document Type: Article

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