Simulation of oil products separation from fibrous sorbent material centrifugally

The paper deals with ecotechnology on the example of the process of separating the fibre sorbent material from oil products by the centrifugal method for the mining industry. For mathematical modelling of the process of centrifugal separation of oil-containing products from fibrous sorbent unit, a problem of finding how the productivity of the process depends on the radius of the centrifuge perforated drum, transverse dimensions of sorbent units, drum angular speed, a viscosity of the fluid and nominal diameter of a capillary, was solved. The basic assumption in the problem solution was that the fibrous sorbent units are considered as a set of cylindrical capillaries of a certain length and diameter arranged radially. It is also believed that every capillary is initially completely and uniformly filled with a liquid. It is found that the productivity of the process significantly increases with increasing the average diameter of the fibres forming the fibrous sorbent article, and also with increasing radius and angular speed of the centrifuge perforated drum and reducing the transverse dimension of the fibrous sorbent unit. It was made an experimental stand of centrifugal separation plant for oil products from fibrous sorbent material. The use of this method will increase the efficiency of combating oil pollution for the mining industry.