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Existing design equations can hardly provide reliable guidance in hydrocyclone designs and give explanations for the selected optimum range of spiral tube inlet. In this paper, the spiral tube inlet hydrocyclone for offshore oil-water separation was optimized by using the response surface method and multi-objective optimization method. With optimization results which were verified by numerical simulation and experiments discussed and analyzed, the optimal entrance structural parameters were obtained: d = 7.45 mm; D = 32.50 mm; h = 7.80 mm; C = 2.00, and the separation efficiency of the optimized hydrocyclone was increased by 8.34% and Euler number reduces 4.12. The optimization process show that the response surface method is reliable for the optimization of the inlet structure of the spiral tube, which provides technical guidance for the development and optimization of the sea oil produced water treatment equipment.
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This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51804183).
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Wu, Z. et al. (2021). Parameter Optimization of Hydrocyclone at the Inlet of Spiral Tube for Offshore Oil Water Separation. In: Wang, Y., Martinsen, K., Yu, T., Wang, K. (eds) Advanced Manufacturing and Automation X. IWAMA 2020. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 737. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6318-2_7
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