CYCLONE DUST HOPPER INFLUENCE

IN THE VORTEX CORE

THE PROBLEM
Widely used in industries to separate dust from gas: geometrical simplicity inexpensive to manufacture flexibility with respect to high temperature and pressure High swirl intensity High curvature of the average streamlines Anisotropy effects Radial shear and the adverse pressure gradients

GOALS

Evaluate

pressure drop and compare the results with experimental data (Dirgo et al !"#$% hopper influence in the vortex core (&lac' et al ()))%

MODELING APPROACH
*he +hases approach ,ontinuous phase: air *ransient High order advection scheme -nterpolation scheme: +ressure: trilinear.trilinear /elocity: trilinear.trilinear &&0 turbulence model 1esh analysis Hexaedrical versus tetraedrical mesh in different velocities

CUSTOMER
+etrobras . 2ra3il

SUMMARY The influences f !he "esh# $s %ell $s !he &'esence f $ h &&e' %e'e !es!e() P'essu'e (' &*

both4 tetrahedrical and hexahedrical meshes4 were good enough to represent the experimental data for low velocities at the inlet of the cyclone As the velocity rises to values near ($ m5s4 however4 the hexahedrical mesh shows better results and should be used

H &&e' An$l+sis*

the presence of a hopper was extremely important for the comparison An extra enlargement of the hopper geometry was tested6

the use of hopper is an attempt to reproduce some 'ind of industrial cyclones