Commercial applications thumb|upright|Sugar centrifugal machines for separating sugar crystals Standalone centrifuges for drying (hand-washed) clothes – usually with a water outlet. Washing machines are designed to act as centrifuges to get rid of excess water in laundry loads. Centrifuges are used in the attraction Mission: SPACE, located at Epcot in Walt Disney World, which propels riders using a combination of a centrifuge and a motion simulator to simulate the feeling of going into space. In soil mechanics, centrifuges utilize centrifugal acceleration to match soil stresses in a scale model to those found in reality. Large industrial centrifuges are commonly used in water and wastewater treatment to dry sludges. The resulting dry product is often termed cake, and the water leaving a centrifuge after most of the solids have been removed is called centrate. Large industrial centrifuges are also used in the oil industry to remove solids from the drilling fluid. Disc-stack centrifuges used by some companies in the oil sands industry to separate small amounts of water and solids from bitumen Centrifuges are used to separate cream (remove fat) from milk; see Separator (milk).
Commercial applications thumb|upright|Sugar centrifugal machines for separating sugar crystals Standalone centrifuges for drying (hand-washed) clothes – usually with a water outlet. Washing machines are designed to act as centrifuges to get rid of excess water in laundry loads. Centrifuges are used in the attraction Mission SPACE, located at Epcot in Walt Disney World, which propels riders using a combination of a centrifuge and a motio:n simulator to simulate the feeling of going into space. In soil mechanics, centrifuges utilize centrifugal acceleration to match soil stresses in a scale model to those found in reality. Large industrial centrifuges are commonly used in water and wastewater treatment to dry sludges. The resulting dry product is often termed cake, and the water leaving a centrifuge after most of the solids have been removed is called centrate. Large industrial centrifuges are also used in the oil industry to remove solids from the drilling fluid. Disc-stack centrifuges used by some companies in the oil sands industry to separate small amounts of water and solids from bitumen Centrifuges are used to separate cream (remove fat) from milk; see Separator (milk).