Stereoscopic PIV studies on the swirling flow structure in a gas cyclone

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 61, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 4252-4261

  Liu, Zhengliang ^a   Zheng, Ying ^a   Jia, Lufei ^b   Jiao, Jinyu ^a   Zhang, Qikai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gas cyclones; Hydrodynamics; Multiphase flow; Particle processing; Separations; Stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (Stereo PIV)

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MACHINE DESIGN; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OPTIMIZATION; PRESSURE DROP; SEPARATION; SWIRLING FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

GAS CYCLONES; PARTICLE PROCESSING; STEREOSCOPIC PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (STEREO-PIV);

CYCLONE SEPARATORS;

CYCLONE SEPARATORS; FLOW PATTERNS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MACHINE DESIGN; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OPTIMIZATION; PRESSURE DROP; SEPARATION; SWIRLING FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 33646809771     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.01.024     Document Type: Article

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