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International Journal of Automotive Technology 2010;11(1): 1-10.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12239-010-0001-9
IMPROVED THEORETICAL MODELING OF A CYCLONE SEPARATOR AS A DIESEL SOOT PARTICULATE EMISSION ARRESTER
P. K. BOSE1, K. ROY2, N. MUKHOPADHYA3, R. K. CHAKRABORTY1
1Jadavpur University
2Central Calcutta Polytechnic
3Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College
ABSTRACT
Particulate matter is considered to be the most harmful pollutant emitted into air from diesel engine exhaust, and its reduction is one of the most challenging problems in modern society. Several after-treatment retrofit programs have been proposed to control such emission, but to date, they suffer from high engineering complexity, high cost, thermal cracking, and increased back pressure, which in turn deteriorates diesel engine combustion performance. This paper proposes a solution for controlling diesel soot particulate emissions by an improved theoretical model for calculating the overall collection efficiency of a cyclone. The model considers the combined effect of collection efficiencies of both outer and inner vortices by introducing a particle distribution function to account for the non-uniform distribution of soot particles across the turbulent vortex section and by including the Cunningham correction factor for molecular slip of the particles. The cut size diameter model has also been modified and proposed by introducing the Cunningham correction factor for molecular slip of the separated soot particles under investigation. The results show good agreements with the existing theoretical and experimental studies of cyclones and diesel particulate filter flow characteristics of other applications.
Key Words: Diesel soot particulate emission, Particulate filter, Cyclone separator, Cunningham correction factor

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