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Alex C. Hoffmann
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Programme for Process Technology, Department of Physics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Louis E. Stein
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Mechanical Separations, Houston, USA
- Gas cyclones and swirl tubes are the most widely used devices for dedusting or demisting in industry
- First and only book on this topic
- For industrial engineers wishing to design cyclones, or to assess their performance and for beginning researchers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book has been conceived to provide guidance on the theory and design of cyclone systems. Forthose new to the topic, a cyclone is, in its most basic form, a stationary mechanical device that utilizes centrifugal force to separate solid or liquid particles from a carrier gas. Gas enters near the top via a tangential or vaned inlet, which gives rise to an axially descending spiral of gas and a centrifugal force field that causes the incoming particles to concentrate along, and spiral down, the inner walls of the separator. The thus-segregated particulate phase is allowed to exit out an underflow pipe while the gas phase constricts, and - in most separators - reverses its axial direction of flow and exits out a separate overflow pipe. Cyclones are applied in both heavy and light industrial applications and may be designed as either classifiers or separators. Their applications are as plentiful as they are varied. Examples include their use in the separation or classification of powder coatings, plastic fines, sawdust, wood chips, sand, sintered/powdered meta!, plastic and meta! pellets, rock and mineral cmshings, carbon fines, grain products, pulverized coal, chalk, coal and coal ash, catalyst and petroleum coke fines, mist entrained off of various processing units and liquid components from scmbbing and drilling operations. They have even been applied to separate foam into its component gas and liquid phases in recent years.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages I-XXII
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- Alex C. Hoffmann, Louis E. Stein
Pages 1-14
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- Alex C. Hoffmann, Louis E. Stein
Pages 15-35
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- Alex C. Hoffmann, Louis E. Stein
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Pages 77-96
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Pages 137-153
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Pages 155-174
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Pages 175-192
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- Alex C. Hoffmann, Louis E. Stein
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- Alex C. Hoffmann, Louis E. Stein
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- Alex C. Hoffmann, Louis E. Stein
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- Alex C. Hoffmann, Louis E. Stein
Pages 299-312
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Back Matter
Pages 313-334
Authors and Affiliations
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Programme for Process Technology, Department of Physics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Alex C. Hoffmann
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Mechanical Separations, Houston, USA
Louis E. Stein