I have been looking on this site for quite some time and have had no luck in coming up with an answer to a question.
When building a separator the inlet is set tangentially to the top hat. Does changing the inlet angle axis change the efficiency of the tophat? I know from my experience with Navy aircraft that pre-swirling the air aids in performance of the engine. So I was thinking that angling the inlet to follow the angle at which the dust rotates will increase the overall collection efficiency. What do you all think?
When building a separator the inlet is set tangentially to the top hat. Does changing the inlet angle axis change the efficiency of the tophat? I know from my experience with Navy aircraft that pre-swirling the air aids in performance of the engine. So I was thinking that angling the inlet to follow the angle at which the dust rotates will increase the overall collection efficiency. What do you all think?