Numerical investigation of cone angle effect on the flow field and separation efficiency of deoiling hydrocyclones

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 247-260

  Saidi, Maysam ^a   Maddahian, Reza ^a   Farhanieh, Bijan ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONE ANGLE; CONTINUOUS PHASE; DE-OILING; DEOILING HYDROCYCLONE; DIFFERENT CONE ANGLES; HYDRO-CYCLONE; HYDROCYCLONES; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE TRACKING; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OIL DROPLETS; RESIDENCE TIME; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SEPARATION EFFICIENCY; TANGENTIAL VELOCITIES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EFFICIENCY; FLOW FIELDS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; SEPARATION;

CYCLONE SEPARATORS;

EID: 84873726897     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: 14321181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-012-1085-8     Document Type: Article

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