To develop the water treatment process, the hydrocyclone is now used as a unit to operate. Understanding hydrodynamics is a key step to improve the separation process efficiency. Recently, a new simple method called the oil droplet method was proposed by Bamrungsri et al. [Chem. Eng. Res. Design 86, 1263-1270] and applied to velocity measurements in a hydrocyclone.The Doppler Velocimetry measurements and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) have been proposed by many researchers as effective for studying the flow field of a hydrocyclone. This work presents a comparison of the experimental results from these two methods along with those obtained from numerical simulations. The numerical calculations of the 3D flow field were performed with FLUENT using the k-ε model and the Reynolds stress model (RSM). Measurements and CFD simulations were performed for two hydrocyclone configurations (5 and 10 cm diameter). Les données de la vélocimétrie ultrasonographique Doppler et les résultats CFD-MTR sont en très bon accord. La méthode de la globule d'huile est moins précise pour les profils de vitesse de phase continus, mais est prometteuse pour la validation des simulations de suivi lagrangiennes.
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