Protein Skimmer Design

[johntanjm]

Do you guys think that a co-current skimmer is better? or a counter-current skimmer.

Co-current: water flow and microbubbles move in the same way towards the waste collection cup

Counter-current: water flow downwards while microbubbles bubble upwards so they're in the opposite direction and hence the name counter current

I just did up a skimmer sketch. Has anyone seen a skimmer deisgned as such?

[LoReNsIa]

look quite alike to schuran design.. btw, this is the re-circulate skimmer design.. wher there is one more feeding pump and a circulating pump. erm.. don noe u understand my broken english not.. haha..

[Thexder]

Looks like similar design to my Macro AS-100.

[TntR2]

hmm.. so is your skimmer sketch a co-current or a counter current design?

i dun really get what u meant with each concept?

[johntanjm]

This current sketch is a CO-CURRENT skimmer. water flows into the inner chamber and the flows upwards TOGETHER with the bubbles and then the water exits into the outer chamber and then out of the skimmer while the bubbles foam up into the cup.

I will check out the macro.

yeah i understand what is recirculating but is it really that necessary to do re-circulation? I'm trying to understand the physics and logic behind it.