Energy & Fuels, Vol.21, No.5, 2969-2976, 2007
Re-entrainment correlations for demisting cyclones acting at elevated pressures on a range of fluids
In this paper, separation efficiency results for three different demisters acting on three different fluid systems, Exxsol D60/nitrogen, a synthetic natural gas, and a real natural gas at a range of pressures up to 114 bara, are brought together using two dimensionless parameters: (1) a re-entrainment parameter and (2) the Weber number. The fact that this can be achieved shows that dernisting cyclones limited by re-entrainment can be modeled by adapting re-entrainment concepts derived for liquid films in a gravity film.