Development and Experimental Study on Pareto Optimum Design of Cyclone Separator

Economic growth in the course of industrial development is causing an increasingly severe environmental problem such as the emission of dust particles. One of the ways that technology can help in combating dust emission is by creating particle separator using cyclone. In this paper, Pareto optimum design guidelines of cyclone separator adapted from a previous simulation study is built and experimented. The goal is to determine the cyclone design parameters that have the maximum collection efficiency and whether the efficiency matches simulation studies. There were three different designs of the cyclone separator based on Pareto optimum design guidelines. These three cyclones have been fabricated using aluminum and polymerizing vinyl chloride (PVC). Experiments were conducted on these cyclones to determine their efficiencies due to different design parameters and the type of dust material used. The result shows that cyclone performance varies with cyclone design parameters. In addition, the size of dust particles could affect efficiency of cyclone separators.