OPTIMIZATION OF THE OPERATING-DESIGN
PARAMETERS OF A COMBINED DUST SEPARATOR

A. V. Akulich and V. M. Lustenkov

UDC 621.928.93

The hydrodynamics of a combined dust separator designed 
by us on the basis of mathematical planning of an experiment has been 
investigated. Computational relations for determining the dependence 
of the ratio between the total pressure losses in this apparatus and 
their minimum value, the hydraulic-resistance coefficient in it, and 
the efficiency of dust suppression in the centrifugal-separation chamber 
at the filtration stage and in the combined dust separator on its 
operating-design parameters were obtained. Optimization of the indicated 
separator has been performed. Optimum ranges of change in the operating-design 
parameters of the combined dust separator at which a high efficiency 
of dust suppression is provided at a minimum hydraulic resistance 
were determined. KP-350-10 and KP-400-10 combined dust separators 
have been developed and introduced at the Krasnyi Mozyryanin Public 
Company.

Mogilev State University of Foodstuff, 3 Schmidt Ave., 
Mogilev, 212027, Belarus; e-mail: mti@mogilev.by. Translated from 
Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 139-143, March-April, 
2007. Original article submitted September 19, 2006.