Publications

In the upstream oil and gas industry cyclonic devices named hydrocyclones have been used commonly to separate heavy, solid, or dense particles from the formation of water/reservoir fluids. The simple design and excellent durability have piqued curiosity in this apparatus, and there are still a vast array of ongoing research and experiments looking for a novel structural design to exploit their ability to separate feed phases. One of the factors that affect the separation performance is the fluid trajectory. In this study, there has been an attempt to investigate the effects of the author’s new approach by implementing grooves with three different designs on the performance of injected fluid trajectory to show the effect of the groove lengths variation on the fluid trajectory. To validate the performance of the author’s creation, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations are used. The grooves are implemented across the body then the injected fluid trajectory of the author’s models is provided. The length of the fluid trajectory’s path projected by the three distinct hydrocyclone author’s configurations is compared. The author’s design ADM-1, which has the most extended groove compared to the length of the cylindrical cyclone body, produced the longest trajectory path and maintained the angular velocity and trajectory path longer than the base model and other author’s configurations.