Cyclone Design and Evaluation Cycl2000

by D. R. van der Vaart and William D. Willets April 25, 2000

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Facility Name: Facility Name

Cyclone ID: Cyclone ID

Cyclone Parameters
Diameter of exit (De) 1.5 ft 0.46 m
Diameter (D) 3.0 ft 0.91 m
# Body Height (Lb) 6.0 ft 1.83 m
# Cone Height (Lc) 6.0 ft 1.83 m
# Inlet Height (Dia.) (H) 1.5 ft 0.46 m
# Inlet Width (W) 0.75 ft 0.23 m
Inlet Type (C[irc.] or R[ect.]) R R
Exit throat length (S) 1.6 ft 0.48 m
Collected solids exit diameter (Dd) 1 ft 0.30 m
# Flow Rate (ACFM) 3,375 acfm 95.6 m3/min
Gas Temperature 80 F 299.7 K
Pressure 1 atm 101.3 kPa
# Particle Density 93 lb/ft3 1493 kg/m3

Molecular Wt. of gas (default is air) 28.8 lb/lb-mol 28.8 g/mol Properties of air:
# Gas Density (default is air) 0.0732 lb/ft3 1.17 kg/m3 Density (lb/ft3) 0.0732
# Gas Viscosity (default is air) 0.0448 lb/hr-ft 1.85E-5 kg/m-s Viscosity (cp) 0.0185
Estimated Pressure Drop 4.4 in H2O 1091 Pa

Particle Size Distribution

Size Average Density Cumulative
Size Ranges Range Diameter Function Mass
(µm) (µm) (µm) (%wt) (% < size)
0-1 0.00 0.5 3 3
1 - 10 1.00 5.5 17 20
10 - 25 10.00 17.5 20 40
25 - 50 25.00 37.5 30 70
50 - 100 50.00 75.0 20 90
> 100 100.00 100.0 10 100
 Performance Analyses Facility: Facility Name
Method of Lapple Cyclone: Cyclone ID
Inlet Area 1.13 ft2 0.10 m2
Inlet Velocity 3000 ft/min 15.2 m/sec 50.0 fps
Effective Turns 6.0 6.0
Particle Cut Diameter 6.7 µm 6.7 µm

Method of Leith-Licht n= 0.66

l [=] natural length 2.10
This is Lc + Lb - S 3.18
Vs = 0.13
d= 0.66
Kc = 0.76
C= 48.61

Mass in New Mass

Size Ranges Avg. Size Psi Range eta etam in Range
(µm) (m) (%) (%) (%)
0-1 5.00E-7 0.001853 3 0.6198 1.86 80.13
1 - 10 5.50E-6 0.22427 17 0.9837 16.72 19.50
10 - 25 1.75E-5 2.270502 20 0.9997 19.99 0.36
25 - 50 3.75E-5 10.43 30 1.0000 30.00 4.24E-3
50 - 100 7.50E-5 41.70 20 1.0000 20.00 3.09E-6
> 100 1.00E-4 74.14 10 1.0000 10.00 3.52E-8
Overall efficiency = 98.58 %
Penetration = 1.42 %

Facility Name
Removal Efficiency (%)

Cyclone ID
1.0000

0.9000

0.8000

0.7000

0.6000

0.5000

0.4000

0.3000

0.2000

0.1000

0.0000
0.0 20.0 40.0 60.0 80.0 100.0 120.0
Particle Diameter (microns)