Vortex Tube Cooling Efficiency

Pressurised gas is injected tangentially into a swirl chamber and.

Vortex tube cooling efficiency. The general name of vortex tube is cooling tube also which instantaneously create streams of high and. In the vortex chamber part of the gas exists via the cold exhaust directly and. The vortex tube also known as the ranque hilsch vortex tube is a mechanical device that separates a compressed gas into hot and cold streams. Air is commonly used as a working medium in the vortex tube.

It has no moving parts. When high pressure gas is tangentially injected into the vortex chamber via the inlet nozzle a swirling flow is created inside the vortex chamber. This model is a convergent vortex tube with d rth 0 633 which produces the cooling efficiency equal to 22 75 cooling temperature drop equal to 23 29 k and 0 72 k more than the basic optimum model d rth 0 611. We can say vortex tube is a device which produces cooling at one end and heating at the other end simultaneously.

Adiabatic efficiency of the vortex tube and p. Hence the vortex cooling is an environmentally friendly system. The gas emerging from the hot end can reach temperatures of 200 c 392 f and the gas emerging from the cold end can reach 50 c 58 f.