Modeling of Erosion in a Cyclone and a Novel Separator with Arc-Shaped Elements

Abstract

Modeling of the separation of catalyst particles from gas using two devices, a cyclone and a novel separator with arc-shaped elements, was performed for fluidized-bed dehydrogenation of C4–C5 paraffins to isoolefins as an example. The proposed dust collector allows one to reduce erosive wear by several times (~6.5-fold) in identical regimes and at identical parameters of the process. The effect of particle size on erosive wear was analyzed under near-industrial conditions; the regions most susceptible to wear in the analyzed devices were identified, as well as the functions describing the dependence between the erosive wear rate and particle diameter for the cyclone and separator with arc-shaped elements, making it possible to predict wear in the devices were obtained.