Hydrocarbon Cyclones Explained Oil Sands Magazine
Cyclone design and operation is very similar to the traditional hydrocyclones used to separate minerals in the mining industry. When naphtha is added to bitumen froth during Naphthenic Froth Treatment NFT, emulsions of bitumen, water and fine solids tend to form within the inclined plate separators IPS which can be very difficult to break up using only gravity separation. Cyclones can be





































