Improvement of particle separation efficiency by installing conical top-plate in hydrocyclone

Powder Technology

Volumn 232, Issue , 2012, Pages 41-48

  Hwang, Kuo Jen ^a   Hwang, Ya Wen ^a   Yoshida, Hideto ^b   Shigemori, Kazuha ^b  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Hydrocyclone; Particle classification; Particle separation; Reynolds stress model

Indexed keywords

CALCULATED VALUES; CENTRIFUGAL EFFECT; CIRCULATION FLOW; CONE ANGLE; CONTINUOUS PHASE; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; DOWNWARD FLOW; FLUID VELOCITIES; HYDRO-CYCLONE; LAGRANGIAN FRAMES; LOW VELOCITY REGION; PARTICLE CLASSIFICATION; PARTICLE COLLECTION; PARTICLE SEPARATION; PARTICLE SEPARATION EFFICIENCY; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; REYNOLDS STRESS MODELS; SECONDARY VORTEX; SIMULATED RESULTS; TANGENTIAL VELOCITIES; UNDERFLOWS;

CENTRIFUGATION; CYCLONE SEPARATORS; VORTEX FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONICAL TOP PLATE; DEVICES; FLUID FLOW; HYDROCYCLONE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SEPARATION; PROCESSING; SIMULATION; VELOCITY; VORTEX MOTION;

EID: 84866557073     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: 1873328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2012.07.059     Document Type: Article

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