Inlet configurations tangential

Three generic forms of cyclone can be characterized by their inlet configurations as illustrated in Fig. 11. At equal gas inlet or gas outlet velocities, the tangential generally yields the highest collection efficiency. At very high inlet particle loadings, differences between the three forms... 

Fig. 1.3.8. Side and top views of the four most used inlet configurations, a circular or pipe inlet, b slot (also called tangential ) inlet, c wrap-around inlet, and d axial inlet with swirl vanes...

Figure 7.8. Geometric configuration of the tangential inlet cyclone.

Figure 1. Schematic of equipment for processing lysates. The tangential flow filter is in the stacked sheet configuration which allows high inlet pressure.

Figure 10-2. Reverse vortex flow system for gliding arc discharge stabilization (a) eonflgu-ration with a movable ring electrode (b) configuration with a spiral electrode. In the figures, (1) quartz tube (2) cylindrical reactor volume (3) swirl generator with tangential inlet holes (4) additional axial gas flow inlet (5) gas flow exit ...

This configuration is also sometimes called a tangential inlet, but we reserve this term to distinguish from axial inlets with swirl vanes... 

This completes our look at the design of cylinder-on-cone cyclones with tangential inlets. In the following section we discuss the design of cylindrical swirl tubes with swirl vanes. In this discussion, we concentrate on the aspects that are specific to swirl tubes. For the aspects shared between swirl tubes and tangential entry cyclones, much of the discussion above is equally valid for swirl tubes, such as the discussion pertaining to vortex finder configurations. 

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