The present article investigates the separation of a two-phase liquid system in a centrifugal force field on the basis of concepts underlying the hydrodynamics of interpenetrating and interacting media. On the example of a continuous centrifuge, a theoretical justification and quantitative analysis of the processing of a liquid (oil-water emulsion) flow in the working volume of the machine is presented. A numerical analysis based on the obtained dependences and process-specific operating parameters revealed the distribution and sedimentation velocity of the oil-phase concentration, which can be effectively used to predict the behavior of emulsion separation processes when designing innovative centrifugal equipment.
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Translated from Khimicheskoe i Neftegazovoe Mashinostroenie, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 16−19, February, 2021.
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Semenov, E.V., Slavyanskiy, A.A. & Mitroshina, D.P. Numerical Analysis of Emulsion Separation Processes in a Continuous Centrifuge. Chem Petrol Eng 57, 113–121 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10556-021-00903-2
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