Study of the Performance of a Novel Hydrocyclone Built in the Configurations of the Classical Families

The performance of classical families of hydrocyclones (Bradley, Rietema, and Demco) has been compared with a novel equipment, the filtering of hydrocyclones. In the filtering of hydrocyclones, the conical section is replaced by a conical filtering wall producing another liquid stream leaving the equipment besides underflow and overflow streams. In the present paper, the influence of the filtering conical wall in the classical geometries was analyzed by experimental and CFD studies. The results showed that the replacement of the conical section of hydrocyclones built with classical geometries by a filtering cone have significantly changed their performance. In general, the separation performance and the capacity can be enhanced with the filtering hydrocyclones.