ABSTRACT
A large chemical plant complex is likely to have facilities for shipping by pipeline, sea, inland waterway, rail, and road. Liquid feeds, products, intermediates, and fuels at chemical and petrochemical plants are stored in tanks, which are usually located in a tank farm adjacent to the process plant area. There has been a major effort in industry in the last several decades to reduce the amount of storage at process plants, especially for flammable and/or toxic materials. The idea is that with having such an equation, one could work back and optimize the design of new cyclones. Cyclones are somewhat more complicated in design than simple gravity settling systems, and their removal efficiency is accordingly much better than that of settling chambers. Cyclones provide a relatively low-cost method of recovering or removing particulate matter from exhaust gas streams.
