Application in Process Industry of the Solid Particles Displacement on a Flat Oscillating Surface

In this paper we present a series of obtained results from the analysis of the behavior of a solid particle on a flat oscillating surface, a process that is found in separation operations of a heterogeneous mixture of solid particles. In this study, the inclination angle of the flat surface (7 or 10 degrees) and the eccentric device speed (91, 244 and 405 rpm) were varied. The results are extracted from video analysis using two commercial video cameras (Sony DCR-SR 36) with a recording speed of 25 frames per second, using the SynthEyes and Mathcad processing software. The obtained results from the analysis helped us to extract data showing the movement on the three axes OX, OY and OZ, average travel distance, average moving time of the solid particle on working surface and average velocity of the solid particle displacement.