ANALYSIS OF THE DESIGN PARAMETERS OF A CYCLONE DUST SEPARATOR

Abubakar  N. Mohammed,  Zakari Ya’u Ladan  and Saanyol I. Igbax

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Kaduna polytechnic, Kaduna.

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ABSTRACT

Cyclones have often been regarded as low-efficiency collectors. However, efficiency varies greatly with particle size and cyclone design. Advanced design work has greatly improved cyclone performance. This paper have discussed the design parameters required to construct a high performing cyclone through the application of the classical cyclone design, However, the pressure drop in this design does not consider any vertical dimensions as contributing to pressure drop, This is a misleading in that a tall cyclone would have the same pressure drop as a short one as long as cyclone inlets and outlets dimensions and inlet velocities are the same.

Texas  cyclone design model was used to obtain an accurate pressure drop and sizing of cyclone, The Texas cyclone design approach to design cyclones was to initially determine optimum inlet velocities (design velocities) for different cyclone designs, hence using the inlets velocity a cyclone dimension can be determined.

Keywords: Cyclone, Inlet velocity, pressure drop, sizing