SIMULATION MODEL TO PREDICT VELOCITY AND PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION INSIDE THE HYDROCYLONE IN WATER TREATMENT PLANT

The objective of this research work is to predict the velocity and pressure distribution inside a hydrocylone which used water as a liquid phase and inert/solid particles as a solid phase. Inside diameter of this hydrocyclone is 85mm. The proportions of each dimension proposed by Bradley are used in this work. In this study, turbulent and swirling flow within a hydrocyclone is simulated by using commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code 'FLUENT' v14.0, Gambit 2.4.6, Tecplot 360, CFD post computer software’s . The results clearly showed the contours and diagrams of pressure and velocity inside the hydrocyclone