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A B C CALCULATION COVER SHEET Project: Title:

E F G H Date: 11-Jul-11 Author: Revision Calc No: Sizing and Selection of Hydrocyclones using Richard Arterburn method http://www.krebs.com/documents/83_sizing_select_cyclones.pdf

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Purpose: To provide a basis for first-pass hydrocyclone sizing for mineral processing applications.

Basis / Assumptions: Method is based on The Sizing and Section of Hydrocyclones by Richard Arterburn. The source paper is available from the Krebs website at this address (current as of Sept 2006): http://www.krebs.com/documents/83_sizing_select_cyclones.pdf

Method: The selection procedure begins with a "normal" cyclone geometry, as described by Arterburn, and 20C feed slurry consisting of water and solids with specific gravity 2.65. "Normal" pressure drop is defined as 69 kPa and feed concentration is less than 1% solids by volume. Next, the selection applies factors to account for the effects of actual solids size, density, slurry %solids, liquid viscosity, and pressure drop. Then the desired flow rate is compared the performance of standard cyclone sizes. A selection of a standard size then determines the number of operating cyclones.

Disclaimer: This spreadsheet is presented "As Is" and no warrantee is made to the correctness, applicability, or validity. The method described has been used in standard engineering practice but it is the sole responsibility of the engineer using this calculation to confirm its applicability to any application. The author of this spreadsheet accepts no responsibility for the correctness or suitability of any results derived from this spreadsheet's use.

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A B C D E F G H Date: 11-Jul-11 1 CALCULATION COVER SHEET Author: Revision 2 Calc No: 3 Project: Sizing and Selection of Hydrocyclones using Richard Arterburn method 4 Title: http://www.krebs.com/documents/83_sizing_select_cyclones.pdf 5 46

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Input Column Optional: Special look up table: Water viscosity at temp Dynamic viscosity = 1.31 cP, density = Liquid density Liquid viscosity 999.7 kg/m 1.31 cP

Calculation Column

10 C 999.7 kg/m 1.000 SG 1.31 cP

Feed solids density Feed solids content Desired overflow is

2.65 SG 54.6 %solids w/w 80 % passing 150 m

2.650 SG 31.2 %solids v/v 150 m

Optional: Special look up table Standard mesh sizes US sieve series 100 mesh =

149 m 33.6 ft water 100.0 kPa 14.5 psi 8,683 m/h 38,234 usgpm

Desired pressure drop

100 kPa

Desired feed flow rate

8683 m/h

D50c (application) = Feed correction factor C1

150 * 1.25

188 m 3.56 0.89 1.00 1.00 59 m 99 cm 39 inch recommend 76.0 91.0 cm 36 inch 945.3 m/h 4162 usgpm 9.2 , round up= 10

[(53 - %Solids v/v)/53]^(-1.43) 3.27 * (pressure drop)^(-0.28) (1.65 / [SGs - SGw] )^0.5 1

Pressure correction factor C2 SG correction factor C3 Other correction factor C4 D50c (base) =

D50c (application) / C1 / C2 / C3 / C4

"Ideal" cyclone diameter to achieve this D50c (base)

Actual cyclone diameter (from typical sizes in Fig 9)

Actual throughput of a single cyclone of this size

Number of operating cyclones required

Add spares

20% extra

2 12

Total number of cyclones for this application

Summary: To achieve 8,683 m/h and a product size 80% passing 150 m operating at 100 kPa requires 12 x 91 cm diameter cyclones (10 operating, 2 standby).

EQUATION 1: PARTICLE RECOVERY CURVES source: http://www.krebs.com/documents/83_sizing_select_cyclones.pdf This table is a prediction of the cyclone recovery of classified material to underflow and is useful for prediction of underflow particle size distribution. Note that unclassified material (carry-under) also reports to the underfow and must be accounted for to constitute a complete underflow size distribution. The carry-under calculation is not performed in this spreadsheet and must be estimated manually.

Rr = recovery to underflow on corrected basis X = particle diameter / D50c particle diameter From previous page, D50c = From previous page, C factors = Particle size, m (corrected) 200 141 100 71 50 35 25 18 13 9 X Reduced recovery (corrected) 100% 100% 94% 69% 35% 16% 8% 4% 2% 2% 59 m 3.2 Particle size, m (uncorrected) 636 450 318 225 159 112 80 56 40 28

3.4 2.4 1.7 1.2 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1

Or, enter a particle size to see its corrected recovery: US sieve series 100 mesh = 149 m size, m 149 X 2.5 recovery 100%

Eqn 1: Predicted cyclone performance

Column D 100% Column D

80%

Recovery to underflow

60%

40%

80%

Recovery to underflow

60%

40%

20%

0% 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 Particle size, m

Note: actual recovery does not consider carry-under of overflow material into the underflow's interstitial spaces. Manually add an appropriate amount of carry-under to constitute a realistic underflow size distribution (eg. Fig 3).

FIGURE 3: PARTICLE RECOVERY CURVES source: http://www.krebs.com/documents/83_sizing_select_cyclones.pdf

FIGURE 5: CYCLONE DIAMETER VERSUS D50c FOR STANDARD CYCLONE source: http://www.krebs.com/documents/83_sizing_select_cyclones.pdf

FIGURE 6: INFLUENCE OF FEED CONCENTRATION ON SEPARATION (C1) source: http://www.krebs.com/documents/83_sizing_select_cyclones.pdf

FIGURE 7: INFLUENCE OF PRESSURE DROP ON SEPARATION (C2) source: http://www.krebs.com/documents/83_sizing_select_cyclones.pdf

FIGURE 8: INFLUENCE OF SOLIDS SPECIFIC GRAVITY ON SEPARATION (C3) source: http://www.krebs.com/documents/83_sizing_select_cyclones.pdf

FIGURE 10: APEX CAPACITY CURVE source: http://www.krebs.com/documents/83_sizing_select_cyclones.pdf

Cyclone Diam inch 4 6 10 15 20 26 30 33 36

cm 10 15 25 38 51 66 76 84 91

first point psi 8 6 9 7 4 4 3 5.4 7.8

usgpm 30 70 200 300 500 1000 1300 2150 3000

second point psi 70 100 100 70 50 90 93 71.5 50

usgpm 91 300 700 1000 2000 5000 8000 8000 8000

Slope a 0.51 0.52 0.52 0.52 0.55 0.52 0.53 0.51 0.53

Pressure entered on InputSheet

14.5 psi

Performance of all cyclone diameters at this pressure Cyclone Diam inch Cycl_perf 4 6 10 15 20 26 30 33 36 Flow at this pressure usgpm m/h 40.7 9.2 110.5 25.1 256.4 58.2 439.1 99.7 1014.0 230.3 1946.1 442.0 2992.7 679.7 3553.8 807.1 4162.3 945.3

cm 10 15 25 38 51 66 76 84 91

FIGURE 7: INFLUENCE OF PRESSURE DROP ON SEPARATION source: http://www.krebs.com/documents/83_sizing_select_cyclones.pdf

Table: PROPERTIES OF WATER source: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/water-dynamic-kinematic-viscosity-d_596.html http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/water-density-specific-weight-d_595.html

Temperature C Water 5 10 20 25 30 40 50 60

Dynamic Kinematic Viscosity Viscosity (cp) 10-6 m/s 1.52 1.31 1 0.890 0.8 0.65 0.55 0.47 1.52 1.31 1 0.894 0.8 0.66 0.55 0.48

Density kg/m 1000 999.7 998.2 997.1 995.7 992.2 988.1 983.2

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Factor 1 3.6 0.23

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SG t/m kg/m lb/ft

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Units_size

m micron mm metre inch

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mesh USmesh 4 5 6 7 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 60 70 80 100 120 140 170 200 230 270 325

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TyMesh

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BritishMesh

8 10 14 16 22 25 30 35 44 52 60 72 85 100 120 150 170 200 240 300

2000 1680 1200 1000 710 600 500 420 355 300 250 210 180 150 125 105 90 75 63 53

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350 MeshTypes US Tyler British

45 USmesh TyMesh BritishMesh

inverse Units_pressure kPa bar Atm mm Hg mm water inch Hg inch water psi 1 100 101.3 0.13 0.01 3.38 0.25 6.89 7.5 0.01 0.01 7.52 101.94 0.3 4.03 0.15

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TABLE 1: RELATIONSHIP OF D50c TO OVERFLOW SIZE DISTRIBUTION source: http://www.krebs.com/documents/83_sizing_select_cyclones.pdf Overflow size Multiplier distribution d50c_base 98.8 95 90 80 70 60 50 0.54 0.73 0.91 1.25 1.67 2.08 2.78