Separators that leverage the centrifugal force generated by spiraling flow inside a conical-cylindrical body. No moving parts: the fluid motion itself does the work. Rugged, cheap and maintenance-simple — the workhorse of industrial particulate separation.
Usual types
- Gas cyclones — separate dust from gas streams: particulate capture in boilers, cement, dryers.
- Hydrocyclones — separate solids from liquids or liquid-liquid streams of different densities; common in mining, water treatment and petroleum production.
Reliability: erosion of the conical wall and apex by the processed material itself (the dominant mode — service life in operating hours, not years), lower-outlet plugging, integrity of the tangential-inlet flanges. Maintenance driven by ultrasonic thickness monitoring.