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By M. HEUMANN, JR., PE, Fisher-Klosterman, Inc., Louisville, KY Understanding Poreaiieo te Cyclone Dust Collectors Louisville, KY 40251-0190 PH: 502-572-4000 ee sinsroatas ..-operating principles, Email: FKI@FKINC.COM specification needs, and costs Cicorescrases ate simplest ces erodynaris ameter an the Sidi CLEAN rand least expensive dust collec- particle's acceleration. Acceleration is, tion devices for industrial air pollution a function of the square of the volu- control. Operation and maintenance metric ar flow rate and the reciprocals are simple because they have no mov- of the square of the inlet area and of ing paris, This article discusses the the cyclone’s body diameter most common cyclone separator Because the flow pattems in the design, the involute entry type with a cyclone are three-dimensional, mathe ‘counterflow, coaxial clean air outlet. matical relationships describing per- ‘Operating Principle—Dustladen formance characteristics are very air enters the eylindricavconical body complex. However, the application of of the cyclone tangentially at the top established physical laws to empirical andthe flow assumes. vortex pattem as data derived from laboratory tests and it travels helically downward, Fig. 1. field experience has resulted in accu- Centrifugal force fom the aie's tangen- rate computer models for predicting tial velocity causes the heavier dust par- cyclone performance, In turn, overall ticles to move radically outward toward cyclone performance has improved, the cyclone’s wall. When the particles and the scope of applications for these reach the wal friction and gravity force units has broadened. them to descend and discharge into a Cyclone Myths —To appreciate the receiver. The cleaned air spirals upward range and type of aic pollution prob- and exits atthe top of the eyclone, Jems that cyclone separators can eco- OUST eg Performance characteristics of a nomically and effectively solve, plant cyclone are determined by its propor- engineers must consider some miscon- tions and size and by the properties ceptions about the equipment. and flow rates of the air and dust Cyclones are suitable only for col- Performance is described by pressure _lecting particles down to about 5 t0 10

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