What is Cyclone and How Does it Work?
The conical construction separating air and dust centrifugally in
all pneumatic systems is called cyclone. When air-product mixture
transported by a certain air flow rate enters the conical
construction called cyclone, it makes vortex movement and slows down.
In other words, when the air and product mixture suddenly undergoes
a phase change from the high speed movement and reaches to a bigger
volume, the powder or the transport material falls down due to the
gravity effect and centrifuge and the air is discharged to
atmosphere. In short, the cyclones work in this manner. Entry to the
cyclones may be square, rectangular, round and tangent in shape. It
varies depending on the status of the process.
Furthermore, when pneumatic transfer is performed, the material
collected in the cyclone is weighed by loadcell. This weighing
operation is called dosing because the dosing operation of the
material transported pneumatically is realized in the cyclones.