Just a thought, the addition of air in the cyclone mixer increases the volume of gas (± double). The speed increases and therefore the efficiency of the cyclone is improved.
Better gas purification,
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The out flow tube to the left is going in the thick part over half ways to the right, toward the horizontal “gasoline-air” intake.
That makes the “sock reversing” when gas is comming from below and air is comming through the upper tube, both spiralling anti-clockwise around the inner, output tube to the left.
Is there anyone here with cyclone sizeing info for a 22 re toyota motor 2.4 - 4cylinder. Ruff gestomate or wag. I have space for a round tube 12"by 2.5’ long and have a 1and1/2 " pluming. No idea how too gestomate i might as well use standard media filter.
Hi Tom C that was a cold fuzen site, hopeing too find a ruff extomate off some simular sized all ready using cyclone, due too i am limited on the knowlege of all the air flow variances, i may have too just try one somwhat larger than MAX auti cyclone. And see if it works.Those pail cyclones sure was working good though a car engine has vast diferent air flow.thus variable efficencys is my concern. Thanks Tom C
Thanks Max i see the charts though not up too the scale of interpreting. I will have too experiment with sizing, yours looked about 8" around and 2 foot long before the clean out.? Any size comparison estomates on your 2.0 cyclone.? Thanks.
I typed in some different formats of the web info and finally got his web site up, verry informitive website, on building cyclones. Thats a good site, Thanks Tom.C.
Hi, Kevin!
16.6.2017
One has to keep in mind, that these cyclones are designed for particle separation, and now the aim seems to be mixing cyclones!
Double volume flow compared to only gas.
You need to figuire out what size pipe, tube diameter you plan to run for your system. This is really the determining factor of how big or small you can build. The smaller the body of the cyclone the higher internal velocities it will have making it most effective. Steffens chart is a simple way to size as your inlet and and outlet pipes “without” modification drive the diameter of the body. Say your are using 2" pipe, for instance; so you have 2" going and 2" going out. So your body diameter can only be 6" any smaller and your outlet pipe will interfere with the inlet pipe and it wont go together. On my systems I have standardized our 4" body filter with 2" port pipes. However we form the inlet pipe so the center pipe clears it. I use this on both small and large engine machines. For the final gas dryer series system I use 3" body filter with 1.5" ports built the same way; However, because this is more restricting I may go to 4" body filters with larger ports.
So you first need to figure out what you think is going to flow best out from the gasifier to your application and then build the cyclone using that same size porting with the body diameter that will work.
Thanks Matt i was thinking on useing 1-1/2" for inlet outlet and through the system pluming, So the cyclone after the heat exchanger from the HWWT Book, i am at 1-1/2" inlet & 1-1/2" outlet pipes. Should i go with 5" or 5-1\2" cyclone and see how well that works or should i stay at 6" cyclone.