Model Input

125 MTPH Solids

O/F Size at 60% passing 100 (um) MTPH Water
O/F %Solids 54 MTPH Slurry
U/F %Solids 80 % solids, wt
S.G. of solids 2.65 % solids, vol
Approx Circulating Load 300 (%) S.G. slurry
82.7 Slurry Flow (l/s)
Units Conversion USGPM slurry
psi 12.0
Kpa 82.7 D50C application from O/F 60% passing
Feed particle size (µm) 80 manual input (any value)
%Recovery of this Size to U/F 99% (Corrected) In this model, C1, C2, C3 are generate
We can also get C1, C

C1, Correction for feed density

C2, Correction for influence of pressure drop
C3, Correction for sp gr solids
D50C base (µm)
Cyclone diameter (inch)
Area of inlet nozzel (inch2)
Size of vortex finder (inch)

Actual throughput of a single cyclone of this size (USGPM)

Number of cyclone units required
Underflow per unit (USGPM)
Size of apex (inch)

100%
Cyclone Classification Curves
Particle X Reduced
90% size, µm recovery
80% (corrected) (corrected)
200 5.4 100%
70%
60%
50%
%Recovery to Underflow
 90%
80%
70%
141 3.8 100%
60%
100 2.7 100%
50%
%Recovery to Underflow 71 1.9 97%
40% 50 1.3 80%

30% 35 0.9 45%

25 0.7 20%
20% Corrected
18 0.5 10%
10%
13 0.3 5%
0% 9 0.2 3%
1 10 100 1000

2.1484903 Feed Particle Size (microns)

 Model Output
STEP 1 material balance
Overflow Underflow Feed
125 375 500
188 125 313
313 500 813
54 80 62
31 60 38
1.507 1.992 1.621
58 70 139
913 1105 2207
STEP 2 D50C application
208 (µm)
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1, C2, C3 are generated from emperically
We can also get C1, C2, C3 from graphs
STEP 3 cyclone diameter
5.9 Graph 3
0.9 Graph 4
1.00 Graph 5
37
19.43
18.88
6.80
STEP 4 number of units required
900 Graph 1
2.5
451
4.25 Graph 2

Curves
Particle
size, µm
(uncorrected)
1117
 790
559
395
279
197
140
Corrected Uncorrected
99
70
49
1000 10000

rons)