{"title":"Effect of internally mounted helical fins on the separation performance of a cylindrical gas-solid cyclone separator","authors":"Zeming Fu, Huagen Wu, Baohua Gao, Mengtao Liang, Guanghua Wu, Shuo Shang, Xin Zhang, Hongye Huang, Siwei Chen","doi":"10.2298/tsci230527204f","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this study, an innovation was made by adding helical fins on the vortex finder of a cylindrical gas-solid cyclone separator, and the effect of this structural improvement on the separation performance was analyzed based on the flow field characteristics. The results show that both cyclones with and without helical fins exhibit a separation efficiency of almost 100 % for particles larger than 5 ?m. As the inlet velocity increases, the effect of adding helical fins on the overall separation efficiency decreases, with a relative deviation of only 0.16 % at an inlet velocity of 27 m/s, while it becomes increasingly effective in reducing energy consumption, with a pressure drop of 25.33 %. The mechanism of the overall performance improvement lies in the fact that the helical fins change the flow field distribution in the cyclone, where the turbulence intensity in the vortex finder is significantly reduced, the tangential velocity of the external vortex is decreased, and the pressure gradient is reduced. The purpose of this paper is to provide new ideas for the optimal design of the internal components of the cyclone separator.","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2298/tsci230527204f","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this study, an innovation was made by adding helical fins on the vortex finder of a cylindrical gas-solid cyclone separator, and the effect of this structural improvement on the separation performance was analyzed based on the flow field characteristics. The results show that both cyclones with and without helical fins exhibit a separation efficiency of almost 100 % for particles larger than 5 ?m. As the inlet velocity increases, the effect of adding helical fins on the overall separation efficiency decreases, with a relative deviation of only 0.16 % at an inlet velocity of 27 m/s, while it becomes increasingly effective in reducing energy consumption, with a pressure drop of 25.33 %. The mechanism of the overall performance improvement lies in the fact that the helical fins change the flow field distribution in the cyclone, where the turbulence intensity in the vortex finder is significantly reduced, the tangential velocity of the external vortex is decreased, and the pressure gradient is reduced. The purpose of this paper is to provide new ideas for the optimal design of the internal components of the cyclone separator.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
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