Filtration on Hydrocyclone of Optimized Geometric Relationships
The filtering hydrocyclone is a solid-liquid separation device patented by the Chemical Engineering School of the Federal University of Uberlândia, which consists of a hydrocyclone whose conical section was replaced by a conical filtering wall. During the operation of these separators, besides under...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Materials science forum 2008-01, Vol.591-593, p.341-346 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The filtering hydrocyclone is a solid-liquid separation device patented by the Chemical
Engineering School of the Federal University of Uberlândia, which consists of a hydrocyclone
whose conical section was replaced by a conical filtering wall. During the operation of these
separators, besides underflow and overflow streams, the existence of a filtrate stream generated by
the filtering process is found in the permeable conical region of the hydrocyclones. Vieira et al.
(2006) got a filtering hydrocyclone that simultaneously presented low Euler Number and cut size
diameter because its geometric relationships has been optimized. The objective of this work was to
analyze the behavior of this optimized filtering hydrocyclone through computational fluid dynamics
and experimental studies. In the same operational conditions of the conventional hydrocyclone, the
performance of this optimized filtering hydrocyclone was significantly influenced by the filtration.
The filtration caused decreases in the Euler number and increment in the total efficiency. |
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ISSN: | 0255-5476 1662-9752 1662-9752 |
DOI: | 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.591-593.341 |