Applications of Centrifugal Separators

Centrifugal separators for dedusting and demisting are very widely used throughout industry. Moreover, they come in all sizes and shapes, as shown in Fig. 1.3.2 and elsewhere in this book. 

Some of the industries making extensive use of these devices are  

The cylinder-on-cone cyclone with a tangential entry is the industry standard design for centrifugal dedusting or demisting devices. Even so, wide varieties of other configurations are in use and some of these will be discussed in the chapters that follow. We now proceed to look at some of these configurations. 

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Acid Refining of Cracked Distillates by Application of Centrifugal Separation. 

The only current industrial application of centrifugal separation of gases known to the author is the separation of uranium isotopes. Natural uranium is about 0.7% balance The uranium enrichment process increases the content to about 2 to 3% for electric power reactors and to about 90% for nuclear weapons, (There are several types of uranium enrichment processes [1], of which only the centrifuge process is discussed here.) All enrichment processes currently in use convert the uranium to uranium hexafluoride, UFg, which sublimes to a gas (as does solid carbon dioxide, dry ice ) at one atmosphere and 56.5°C. The resulting gas is 0.7 mol% (M = 349 g/mol) and... 

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