Effect of the 'end of the vortex' phenomenon on the particle motion and separation in a swirl tube separator

Powder Technology

Volumn 222, Issue , 2012, Pages 101-107

  Pisarev, Gleb I ^a   Hoffmann, Alex C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

CFD; Cyclone separators; End of the vortex; Separation efficiency

Indexed keywords

AXIAL POSITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FLOW OF PARTICLES; GAS SEPARATORS; LAGRANGIAN SIMULATION; PARTICLE FLOW PATTERNS; PARTICLE MOTIONS; SEPARATION EFFICIENCY; SINGLE PARTICLE; SWIRL TUBES; VORTEX CORES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CYCLONE SEPARATORS; VORTEX FLOW;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLONE SEPARATOR; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FLOW RATE; GAS FLOW; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE SEPARATION; ROTATION; SIMULATION; SOLID STATE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TUBE FLOW; VORTEX MOTION;

EID: 84858752407     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: 1873328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2012.02.006     Document Type: Article

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