I'm all for, but you make it sound like it's easy as pie. Proper cyclone modelling requires a few factors to be taken into account doesn't it? Like the suction pressure, size of the air inlet and outlet, and a few other parameters.

It's enough mind abusing that people sometimes managed to write over 100 pages about this topic. And here is another dude that details the build process of a sawdust dust collector that uses cyclonic separation (the very object of inspiration for the dyson products).

However I have never heard of orcy, neither seems google. Is it similar to the technology of those industrial cyclonic separators used to clean gas using a fluid that's injected into the cyclone?

Anyways, I have two 1000W vacuum turbines that were pulled out of an industrial vacuum (a numatic I believe). I got them for a dust collection project I have in mind, don't know if a portable dust collector/vacuum can be designed to make use of them. If it does, it would mean more shelf space for me, a fun project to collaborate on, and a proper cleaning equipment for the lab ... However to reduce the noise, maybe as suggested earlier by Armin, a centrifugal fan would make meeting the requirements easier.

Joe


On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Sebastian Bachmann <me@free-minds.net> wrote:
+1

On 14. Juli 2014 15:50:27 MESZ, Armin Faltl <armin.faltl@aon.at> wrote:
>On 2014-07-14 13:28, Joe Nassimian wrote:
>>
>> If for whatever X or Y reasons, it's not possible to have a vacuum
>> that is more suitable for a hackerspace, how about slapping together
>a
>> few junk parts to build a wet spill attachment
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrgSlbnjy-U> for the vacuum we
>> already have?
>>
>when I heard about the issue in more detail now, I thought: why don't
>we
>build a much better
>vacuum cleaner ourselves? Actually I would want a cleaner with
>wet-capability myself.
>There is a good design, that employs liquid cleaning / gas washing of
>the air called "Orcy",
>that was presented to me.
>
>I envision a design, that combines the idea of the Dyson, a cyclone,
>for
>the coarse mud
>with the idea of the Orcy, a gas washer, for excellent fine filtering,
>if it's done right.
>For prototyping of the air-nozzels 3D-printing will work nicely and a
>sketch is in my head...
>
>Other requirements:
>*) very quiet
>*) robust & repairable
>*) relatively cheap
>
>By designing a good centrifugal fan and strapping standard vacuum
>cleaner tubes/hoses
>and floor-nozzles to a newly engineered body, this should be
>achievable.
>
>Regards, Armin
>
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