With the aims of rising the throughput and of enhancing the flexibility in tuning the process parameters, we have initiated the analysis of a magnetodensimetric separation cell which works in the configuration HGM-transversal. The solid particles whose separation is attempted are carried by a ferrofluid in a laminar flow between two parallel plates, either horizontal or inclined A chain of cylindrical ferromagnetic rods, mutually parallel, is mounted outside the flowing region perpendicularly on the current. An uniform magnetic field is applied perpendicularly both to the ferromagnetic rods and to the suspension's flowing direction. The transversal section of the flowing field is divided at the exit into more parts by means of some interior walls. Our study is based on the analyses of the relative difference between buoyancy and gravitational forces and on the numerical treatment of the particles' motion equations. Trajectories analyze results prove the possibility of the magnetodensimetric separation in a continuum process.
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