Flow in the inlet region in tangential inlet cyclones

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 40, Issue 23, 2001, Pages 5649-5655

  Peng, Weiming ^a   Boot, Pascal J A J ^a   Hoffmann, Alex C ^b   Dries, Huub W A ^c   Kater, Jan ^c   Ekker, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTAKE SYSTEMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; SWIRLING FLOW;

LASER DOPPLER ANEMOMETRY;

FLOW PATTERNS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CYCLONE; FLOW PATTERN; FLOW VELOCITY; GAS FLOW; INLET; LASER DOPPLER ANEMOMETER;

AIRFLOW; ANEMOMETRY; CALCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYCLONE SEPARATOR; DYNAMICS; FLOW RATE; GAS; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTION; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION;

EID: 0034747294     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie010226q     Document Type: Conference Paper

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