Cross-current gravity separators

Cross-current gravity separators (dust settling chambers with horizontal gas flow) the particles are precipitated by the action of gravity, here directed transversely to the gas flow direction. This type of separator with gas velocities of 0.5-1.5m/sec used to be widely employed asprimary dust collectors (precleaners) (Fig. 3). 

As the models of counter-current separations drawn up so far [1,2] have proven unsuitable or too complex [12] for the evaluation of the multistage cross-flow gravity separation studied here. In order to describe the process efficiency, the separation tapping model of a turbulent cross-flow hydroclassification developed by Schubert [8] and Neesse [5] was supplemented with a model for multistage turbulent cross-flow aeroseparation [16],... 

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