Karakteristik Hydrocyclone untuk Pemisahan Minyak dan Air

Eksplorasi minyak bumi dari sumur-sumur yang sudah tua menghasilkan minyak dengan kandungan air tinggi. Hydrocyclone suatu alat yang berfungsi untuk pemisahan cair-cair berdasarkan perbedaan berat jenis setiap komponen. Pemisahan ini terjadi dikarenanakan adanya gaya sentrifugal dan gaya gravitasi yang dihasilkan dari bentuk hydrocyclone yang seperti kerucut. Perancangan dan pembuatan hydrocyclone menghasilkan alat dengan spesifikasi sebagai berikut : diameter pipa masukan : 25,4 mm, diameter cylindrical section : 120 mm, tinggi cylindrical section : 120 mm, tinggi cone section : 600 mm, diameter pipa overflow : 25,4 mm, diameter pipa underflow : 25,4 mm. Laju alir optimum untuk pemisahan air-minyak tanah pada hydrocyclone adalah 91,8 liter/menit dengan kadar minyak tanah di overflow sebesar 11,4% dan kadar minyak tanah di underflow sebesar 3%.Petroleum exploration from old wells produces oil with a very high water content. Hydrocyclone is a device that functions for liquid-liquid separation based on differences in specific gravity of each component. This separation occurs due to the presence of centrifugal forces and gravitational forces resulting from cone-like forms of hydrocyclone. The design and manufacture of hydrocyclone produces tools with the following specifications: input pipe diameter: 25.4 mm, cylindrical section diameter: 120 mm, high cylindrical section: 120 mm, cone section height: 600 mm, overflow pipe diameter: 25.4 mm, underflow pipe diameter: 25.4 mm. The optimum flow rate for the separation of water-kerosene on hydrocyclone is 91.8 liters / minute with the level of kerosene in overflow of 11.4% and the level of kerosene in underflow of 3%.

Effect of Overflow Pipe on the Internal Flow Fields and Separation Performance of W-Shaped Hydrocyclones

The entrainment of fine particles in underflow of a grinding-classification hydrocyclone can cause ore overgrinding, which will lead to reductions in both metal recovery and ball mill throughput. To address this problem, this paper proposed a W-shaped hydrocyclone that can effectively reduce underflow fine particle entrainment. Experimental tests and numerical simulations were employed to deeply investigate overflow pipe diameter influence on the separation performance and internal flow field of W-shaped hydrocyclones. The effects of overflow pipe diameter on air core shape, velocity field, pressure field, and separation performance were studied. The results revealed that as the diameter of the overflow pipe increased, air core gradually stabilized, and air core diameter gradually increased. The diameter of stabilized air core was approximately 45% to 55% of overflow pipe diameter. As overflow pipe diameter increased, hydrocyclone pressure drop decreased, energy consumption was reduced, the tangential velocity decreased, outer vortex axial velocity did not change significantly, and inner vortex axial velocity gradually increased. At the same time, zero-velocity points gradually moved outward, and the inner vortex region expanded. By the increase of overflow pipe diameter, both the underflow yield and split ratio gradually decreased, the coarse particle content in the overflow product increased, and the fine particle content in the underflow product gradually decreased.

Performance of a Hydraulically Linked and Physically Decoupled Stormwater Control Measure (SCM) System with Potentially Heterogeneous Native Soil

This study shows that a physically decoupled but hydraulically linked design focusing on surface infiltration components (i.e., excluding underdrain and infiltration bed systems) can be the preferred way to have a low-cost and robust stormwater control measure (SCM) system. The SCM under investigation in Philadelphia, PA, is a green infrastructure (GI) and has a mirrored design of two sets of hydraulically linked planters. Each planter has an overflow pipe connected to an underground infiltration bed. The system showed excellent overall performance as no overflow/bypass entering the combined sewer. A large variation of saturated hydraulic conductivity was found for the planter soil, and the planter with lower saturated hydraulic conductivity created surface runoff that overflows to the next planter in line. Due to the linked design, the unexpected deviation of performance of a single planter did not affect overall system performance. The infiltration bed showed great variation in water drawdown rate at different water depth, which could be caused by the possible high heterogeneity of the native soil. The study argued that overflow systems, which handled only about 18% of runoff in this study, can be replaced by slightly larger surface area for lower building cost, lower maintenance cost, and more reliable performance.

Numerical Simulation of Flow Field Characteristics and Separation Performance Test of Multi-Product Hydrocyclone

A traditional hydrocyclone can only generate two products with different size fractions after one classification, which does not meet the fine classification requirements for narrow size fractions. In order to achieve the fine classification, a multi-product hydrocyclone with double-overflow-pipe structure was designed in this study. In this work, numerical simulation and experimental test methods were used to study the internal flow field characteristics and distribution characteristics of the product size fraction. The simulation results showed that in contrast with the traditional single overflow pipe, there were two turns in the internal axial velocity direction of the hydrocyclone with the double-overflow-pipe structure. Meanwhile, the influence rule of the diameter of the underflow outlet on the flow field characteristics was obtained through numerical simulation. From the test, five products with different size fractions were obtained after one classification and the influence rule of the diameter of the underflow outlet on the size fraction distribution of multi-products was also obtained. This work provides a feasible research idea for obtaining the fine classification of multiple products.

Experiments determining the height of the pressure and the time required to clean the water purification filter

The water treatment process to get water that meets the requirements of drinking water is carried out using sand filters as the main ingredients in addition to gravel, charcoal, and fiber. This water treatment can effectively produce drinking water that is needed, the use of a filter for a long time will cause blockage by dirt stuck on the surface of the sand filter, so it cannot be used continuously without being cleaned regularly. This study aims to determine the water pressure needed to clean the dirt that clogs the sand filter and the length of the filter washing cycle. Using laboratory experiments on a J-shaped filter container model of cross-section plastic pipe 07.5 cm, 010 cm, 015 cm, and 020 cm filled with sand grading 0.15 to 0.6 mm as thick as 50-60 cm, channeling pressurized water through the outlet into the sand filter and out through the overflow pipe. The results showed that a water level of 200 cm above the datum was able to push dirt and clean the filter after being pressed for 600 seconds.

The Study on Numerical Simulation and Experiments of Four Product Hydrocyclone with Double Vortex Finders

A hydrocyclone is an instrument that can effectively separate multi-phase mixtures of particles with different densities or sizes based on centrifugal sedimentation principles. However, conventional hydrocyclones lead to two products only, resulting in an over-wide particle size range that does not meet the requirements of subsequent operations. In this article, a two-stage series, a four product hydrocyclone is proposed. The first stage hydrocyclone is designed to be a coaxial double overflow pipe: under the effect of separation, fine particles are discharged from the internal overflow pipe, while medium-size particles are discharged from external overflow pipe before entering the second stage hydrocyclone for fine sedimentation. In other words, one-stage grading leads to four products, including the first stage underflow, the first stage overflow, the second stage underflow, and the second stage overflow. The effects of structural parameters and operational parameters on flow field distribution in hydrocyclone were investigated via a study of flow field distribution in multi-product hydrocyclones using numerical simulations. The application of four product hydrocyclone in iron recovery shows that the grade and recovery of iron concentrate exceed 65.08% and 86.14%, respectively. This study provides references for understanding the flow field distribution in hydrocyclones and development of multi-product grading instrument in terms of both theory and industrial applications.