Prediction of Size Distribution of Particles Penetrating Dry Cyclone Separators
Publication: Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 128, Issue 10
Abstract
The efficiency of cyclones varies widely with the size of particles and complex mathematic formulations are used for predicting the collection efficiency of a single particle size. Numerical integration of the latter, in conjunction with the appropriate in each case input particle size distribution, or direct use of nomographs if lognormal input particle size distribution can be assumed, yields the overall efficiency. In either case, no information is available regarding the size distribution of the penetrating particles. As shown in this paper, lognormal input particle size distributions yield lognormal output particle size distributions. Based on this and on the analysis of functional relations, a set of nomographs is developed directly yielding the mean diameter and standard deviation of penetrating particles as a function of the input particle size distribution parameters and key cyclone design and operating conditions. The above set the stage for the rigorous computation of the size-specific emissions from cyclones and the overall and size-specific efficiencies of secondary control systems that may follow. This analysis is in line with current trends, which, on the basis of health considerations, place emphasis on the size-specific rather than on the overall particle emissions.
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Received: Oct 8, 2001
Accepted: Dec 14, 2001
Published online: Sep 13, 2002
Published in print: Oct 2002
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