Patent ID: 6942709
Filing Date: 2005-09-13
Classification: B01D,B04C,F01M,H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A cyclone arrangement for separating particles or droplets from a fluid stream, comprising at least two cyclones arranged in parallel, each cyclone having a tangential intake opening for the fluid stream and acting to set a fluid stream introduced through the intake opening into rotation so that due to a resulting centrifugal force, particles or droplets to be separated from the fluid stream are deposited on an outer wall and discharged through a discharge opening at the bottom of each cyclone, wherein the cyclone intake openings are each closed or opened individually, wherein a plurality of the at least two cyclone intake openings are closed or opened by a common slider, said slider having openings for the fluid in the vicinity of the respective cyclone intake openings, and wherein the position and size of each slider opening is designed such that in various slider positions, the fluid stream reaches a different number of cyclone intake openings.