1st International Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Sciences for Sustainable Technologies
A Review on Performance of Cyclone Separator in Square Cylinder Setup
Vivek R, Venkatesh S, Gokul Shyam D, Jai Adithya R, Mukilan T and Sriram, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
The particle collection performance of the square and cylindrical type of cyclone separator is reviewed for the study. The fabricated setup is designed and processed by Solid works and TIG welding respectively. The geometrical variations observed in the structure of setup sequentially arranged in parallel condition of Square-Cylinder-Square-Cylinder arrangement. The significant rise in pressure drop is observed with the study for collection efficiency. The performance carried out in larger scale for the conclusive segments with the aid of variable frequency diaphragm. The speed controlling device which optimise the speed condition for the setup through blower. The centrifugal action inside the separator will impinges the fine particles away from the surface and follows the vortex patter on the middle. The coarse particles will largely collected to the bottom of the vortex and collected on the bin. The variant's mixed configuration has a higher pressure drop and better collecting effectiveness. Only for tiny particles does the percentage of short-circuiting particles rise with an increase in intake velocity. There are noticeable discrepancies in the collection efficiency curves as a result of the fact that when particle size increases, the fraction of short-circuiting particles declines more quickly at higher intake velocities. The findings from the review research will allows to recommend the suitable arrangement setup for better collection efficiency and also provides the convene model to study of particulates.
Keywords
Velocity and Flow Pattern, Cyclone Separator, Pressure Drop, Speed Regulator.
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Vivek R, Venkatesh S, Gokul Shyam D, Jai Adithya R, Mukilan T and Sriram, “A Review on Performance of Cyclone Separator in Square Cylinder Setup”, Advances in Computational Intelligence in Materials Science, pp. 143-149, June. 2023. doi:10.53759/acims/978-9914-9946-6-7-19
