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Numerical Performance Evaluation of an Ultra-small Lapple Cyclone Separator

초소형 Lapple 사이클론 집진기의 수치적 성능평가

  • Park, Sumin (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Incheon National University) ;
  • Kwon, Jae-Sung (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Incheon National University)
  • Received : 2020.11.28
  • Accepted : 2020.12.20
  • Published : 2020.12.31
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to numerically evaluate the collection performance of an ultra-small Lapple cyclone separator for 1~10 ㎛ particles introduced at flow rate of 10 L/min. The numerical evaluation reveals that a static pressure drop occurs more dominantly inside of the cyclone separator than at the inlet and the vortex finder. Also a fluid flow in the cyclone separator is confirmed to have a helical structure heading upward in the center of cyclone separator and downward in the vicinity of wall. The investigation on dust collection efficiency of the Lapple cyclone separator shows that particles of 4~8 ㎛ diameters are collected at very lower efficiency than other sizes. Then, the cut-point diameter of the cyclone separator is 1.48 ㎛.

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