- Like the heavy-media vessels, Heavy-media Cyclones also are designed to clean coal and minerals based on their density differences. Using finely ground magnetite and water as the media to create a buoyancy effect for gravimetric separation, the Heavy-media Cyclone forces the lighter solids to its centre, where the slurry transports them upward and through the vortex finder. The dense mineral matter spirals downward toward the apex and exits through that orifice.
- These high-capacity units utilise centrifugal forces to enhance the separation of fine particles that cannot be efficiently recovered using static heavy-media vessels. Heavy-media Cyclones are relatively inexpensive and typically require little operator attention
- At the wellhead, upstream of the choke Downstream of the choke, and before the production separator From the separator, in the aqueous phase or sand jetting effluent