Editing Cyclonic separation (section)

== Uses ==
Cyclone separators are found in all types of power and industrial applications, including pulp and paper plants, cement plants, steel mills, petroleum coke plants, metallurgical plants, saw mills and other kinds of facilities that process dust.

Large scale cyclones are used in [[sawmill]]s to remove [[sawdust]] from extracted air.  Cyclones are also used in [[oil refineries]] to separate oils and gases, and in the [[cement]] industry as components of [[cement kiln|kiln]] preheaters. Cyclones are increasingly used in the household, as the core technology in bagless types of portable [[Vacuum cleaner#Cyclonic|vacuum cleaner]]s and [[central vacuum cleaner]]s. Cyclones are also used in industrial and professional [[kitchen ventilation]] for separating the grease from the exhaust air in extraction hoods.<ref>{{cite web|title=How cyclone grease separators work|author=Jeven Oy|url=http://www.jeven.fi/en/cyclonic-separators/|access-date=2015-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421003247/http://www.jeven.fi/en/cyclonic-separators/|archive-date=2017-04-21|url-status=dead}}</ref> Smaller cyclones are used to separate airborne particles for analysis.  Some are small enough to be worn clipped to clothing, and are used to separate respirable particles for later analysis.

Similar separators are used in the [[oil refining]] industry (e.g. for [[Fluid catalytic cracking]]) to achieve fast separation of the catalyst particles from the reacting gases and vapors.<ref>Martin Huard, Cedric Briens, Franco Berruti, Thierry Gauthier, 2010, "A Review of Rapid Gas-Solid Separation Techniques", IJCRE, 8, R1.</ref>

Analogous devices for separating particles or solids from liquids are called hydrocyclones or hydroclones. These may be used to separate solid waste from water in [[wastewater]] and [[sewage treatment]].