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Various types of equipment and techniques have been employed to suppress foam formation in process equipment. These include defoaming chemicals, sprays, wire mesh elements, heat, live steam injection, sonic horns and the use of large retention time vessels. But it turns out that one of the most effective ways of breaking many types of process foams is through the application of centrifugal force. Thus, what we wish to describe herein is the use of cyclonic type devices for suppressing or breaking process foams — a type of equipment that has become quite popular in recent years.
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Hoffmann, A.C., Stein, L.E. (2002). Foam-Breaking Cyclones. In: Gas Cyclones and Swirl Tubes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07377-3_14
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