1st International Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Sciences for Sustainable Technologies
Comparative Research on Series and Parallel Hydrocyclones using Computational Fluid Dynamics
Vimal A, Herlin Mathura Rosary J A, Jeeva Bharathi S, Naresh P and Naveen Kumar K, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Hydrocyclone are separating devices which work on the principle of centrifugal force. The Hydrocyclones finds its application in petroleum, chemical, textile, mining and paper industries. It is used for separating the solid suspended particles in the liquid. Performance of the Hydrocyclone is greatly influenced by the geometrical parameters and pressure drop. In this present work an overview has been made for arranging the two Hydrocyclone in parallel and series manner for enhancing the performance. The optimization of geometrical parameters is essential to reduce energy consumption and improve the performance of the hydro cyclone. The performance of the parallel and seriesHydrocyclone is determined by the recovery efficiency of the industry Hydrocyclone. The energy consumption of the multi Hydrocyclone is reduced as two Hydrocyclone (parallel and series) were operated using a single pump. Numerical solution for the fluid flow is obtained by Computational FluidDynamics (CFD) by adapting k- Epsilon techniques.
Keywords
Parallel and Series Hydrocyclone, CFD, K-Epsilon Model.
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Vimal A, Herlin Mathura Rosary J A, Jeeva Bharathi S, Naresh P and Naveen Kumar K, “Comparative Research on Series and Parallel Hydrocyclones using Computational Fluid Dynamics”, Advances in Computational Intelligence in Materials Science, pp. 119-126, June. 2023. doi:10.53759/acims/978-9914-9946-6-7_15
