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🌪️ Cyclone Separators: Centrifugal Particulate Removal

See how a swirling gas stream in a conical cyclone chamber flings particles to the wall for removal, and how particle size, inlet velocity, and cyclone geometry set separation efficiency.

Engineering & Materials3DModerate60 FPS💨 Air & Wind

The simulation demonstrates how a swirling gas vortex inside a conical cyclone chamber separates particles by size, showing how particle diameter and inlet velocity together determine whether a given particle is flung to the wall or escapes with the cleaned gas.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

🎮 How to Use

Adjust the particle size and inlet velocity sliders to see how particle trajectories diverge inside the vortex, and observe how the separation efficiency and cut diameter change as a result.

💡 Did You Know?

Fluid catalytic cracking units in petroleum refineries use specialized high-temperature cyclones operating continuously for years to separate catalyst particles from process gas, some processing catalyst circulation rates of several tons per second.

⚙ Under the hood

See how a swirling gas stream in a conical cyclone chamber flings particles to the wall for removal, and how particle size, inlet velocity, and cyclone geometry set separation efficiency.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install