Hydrocyclone Classifiers
In beneficiation plant , Hydrocyclones is an important mining machine and use centrifugal forces to classify particles in a fluid that experiences essentially free vortex motion inside the device. They are widely used in mineral processing plants today because of their extremely favorable capacity-to-size ratios and reasonably low maintenance. Basic Characteristics of hydrocyclone A cutaway view of a typical hydrocyclone is shown in Figure1. Feed slurry, either pumped or flowing by gravity, enters the inlet through a feed pipe and flows at a tangent to a cylindrical feed chamber under pressure. To increase retention time, a cylindrical section is often added between the upper feed chamber and the lower conical section. This section has an included angle (cyclone angle) in the range of 12° (for cyclones of 10-in. diameter or less) to 20° (for larger cyclones). Fine particles leave through the vortex finder and are directed to further processing by the overflow pipe. Coarse partic...