Investigation of water injection influence on hydrocyclone separation performance

• Main Authors: Leonid Leonidovich Minkov, Elizaveta Vladimirovna Pikushchak, Johann G. Dueck
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Institute of Computer Science 2012-12-01
• Series: Компьютерные исследования и моделирование
• Subjects: hydrocyclone; injection; monodisperse suspension; computational fluid dynamics
• Online Access: http://crm.ics.org.ru/uploads/crmissues/crm_2012_4/12411.pdf

In this paper particularities of the swirling turbulent flow of monodisperse suspension in the hydrocyclone with injector are investigated on the base of the numerical simulation. The 2D axisymmetric approximation of Reynolds Stresses Model and model of mixture is used to describe the swirling turbulent flow field of suspension and particles parameters in the hydrocyclone. Special attention is paid to the clarification of mechanisms of injection influence on the reorganization of hydrodynamic field and finally on classification mechanisms. It is shown that tangential injection method stronger effects separation curve compared to the radial one.