In this paper, a novel method for the Analysis of Test Series data carried out with hydrocyclones by using the CYCLONPLUS Software will be presented (usually test cyclones in laboratory scale). The analysis of test data is based on practice oriented mathematical models, which consider the complex phenomenology by the use of adaptation parameters. There are 10 adaptation parameters, which are specific for the system suspension and hydrocyclone family. To one hydrocyclone family belong apparatuses with different diameters of the cylindrical part but with the same specific geometrical parameters: length to diameter (L/D), cylindrical length to diameter (l/D), inlet diameter to cyclone diameter (D_i/D) as well as overflow diameter to cyclone diameter (D_o/D). It will be explained that only 3 of the 10 adaptation parameters are the most important and that for the other 7 parameters default values can be used. Of course, the program enables the determination of all 10 parameters from only 4 tests. From every test, by default the following parameters have to be measured and entered in the Analysis module: Feed und underflow volume rates (Q, Q_u), Pressure drop (Dp), underflow orifice diameter (D_u) and solids mass content of the overflow (c_mo). Due to the theory-based diagrams of the Analysis module, the quality of the measurements can be judged, and only correct measurements can be used for the determination of the above-mentioned adaptation parameters.

Based on the adaptation parameters, which are determined from the analysis of the Series test data it will be demonstrated how by using these parameters a performance calculation or the design of an industrial unit can be performed in a user-friendly way.