Experimental study of droplet behavior in a swirl flow field induced by two kinds of guiding vanes and inlet structure optimization

Droplet breakage is a common phenomenon in converting pipe flow to swirl vane-type separator (VTPS)’ inlet. The evaluation of the dispersed droplet sizes after crucial optimum design inlet structure and estimation oil-water separation performance. This paper studies behavior produced by guiding vanes. Experiments are performed with two different vanes at VTPS. oil droplets downstream measured situ using Malvern Insitec SX. results indicate that streamlined deflector superior semi-elliptical plate for VTPS’ optimization based on comparison their respective induced fields, which can be explained modified T-model. Our study suggests use T-model reliable method optimize vane swirling generating stage.