Performance enhancement of axial concurrent liquid�liquid hydrocyclone separator through optimization of the swirler vane angle

Al-Kayiem, H.H. and Hamza, J.E. and Lemmu, T.A. (2020) Performance enhancement of axial concurrent liquid�liquid hydrocyclone separator through optimization of the swirler vane angle. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 10 (7). pp. 2957-2967.

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Abstract

Vane angle configuration is considerably affecting the internal flow behavior and separation performance of a concurrent axial inlet liquid�liquid hydrocyclone. This study was carried out to improve the design of the swirl generator by optimizing the vane�s deflection angle in an oil/water axial inlet hydrocyclone separator. Angles ranging from 37° to 75° were examined at various operational conditions, including mixture temperature, mixture flow rate, and water-to-oil ratio. Two analysis techniques have been coupled to achieve the aim. First, design of experiment by the response surface method was utilized to generate a combination of run/boundary conditions of swirler vane angles, inlet mixture temperatures, flow rates, and concentrations. The obtained 15 run/boundary conditions were adopted as cases for computational fluid dynamics simulation to determine the separation efficiency, tangential velocity and pressure drop of each case using ANSYS Fluent software. The optimization results show that the swirl generator with a 45° deflection angle generated slightly higher tangential velocity compared with higher and lower vane deflection angles. The separation efficiency obtained by using the 45° swirl generator was higher than other angles, in spite that the turbulence intensity is slightly higher at 45° compared to other vane angles. © 2020, The Author(s).

Item Type: Article
Impact Factor: cited By 7
Uncontrolled Keywords: Computational fluid dynamics; Computer software; Cyclone separators; Design of experiments; Efficiency; Mixtures, Computational fluid dynamics simulations; Operational conditions; Performance enhancements; Response surface method; Separation efficiency; Separation performance; Tangential velocities; Turbulence intensity, Liquids
Depositing User: Ms Sharifah Fahimah Saiyed Yeop
Date Deposited: 25 Mar 2022 03:14
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2022 03:14
URI: http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/29924

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