Hydrocyclone is a device for solid concentration or selection of solid particles from a liquid-solid mixture. It is widely used in the mineral industry for selection of solid particles from a few to a few hundred micrometers. This paper presents a radiotracer experiment and computational simulation of selection of solid particles in a hydrocyclone of Fi-500 mm, which is used in the industrial copper ore concentration process. The simulation, based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques, allowed obtaining the velocity and concentration distribution for a real mixture flowing in the hydrocyclone. The mixture was composed of water and nine solid phases of different grain sizes. Finally, the selection curve of solid grains was obtained and compared with the experimental radiotracer results.
A radioisotope tracer study was carried-out in a pilot scale indirectly heated rotary dryer to measure residence time distribution (RTD) of sand particles. Lanthanum-140 labeled sand was used as a tracer. Mean residence time (MRT) and variance of the tracer distribution curves were calculated from the measured RTD curves. From the calculated MRTs, solid holdup in the dryer was estimated. The qualitative comparison of the dimensionless variance with the data published in the literature led to the conclusion that the rotary dryer behaves as a plug flow system. The results of the study were used to design a full-scale industrial rotary dryer.
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