Research on effectiveness of separation process of oil-water emulsion in a hydrocyclone

摘要

In the paper shortly presented are phenomena of dynamic separation process which occurs in a novel hydrocyclone which separates two, non-mixing together liquids. Measurements of the oil/water separation effectiveness performed at different testing parameters for two configurations of the model hydrocyclone elaborated by Maritime University in Szczecin are described. Also, oil particle size distributions before and behind the hydrocyclone, obtained by means of a particle size meter based on laser light difraction method, developed by Malvern Instruments Ltd, are also presented.