Vortex Tube Cooling Efficiency

I have performed few tests with vortex tube to find its efficiency comparing with a refrigeration system objective was to determine whether we can use compressed air or co2 to replace refrigeration system vortex tube works only with pressurised fluid when sudden drop on pressure reduces temperature and the spiral form separator inside the vortex tube which circulates the fluid around it.

Vortex tube cooling efficiency.

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. When high pressure gas is tangentially injected into the vortex chamber via the inlet nozzle a swirling flow is created inside the vortex chamber. Introduction a vortex tube is a thermal device that can produce hot and cold streams simultaneously using only a compressed gas. 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. Adiabatic efficiency of the vortex tube and p. He vortex tube is an effective and low cost solution to a wide variety of industrial spot cooling and process cooling needs. Hence the vortex cooling is an environmentally friendly system.

Pressurised gas is injected tangentially into a swirl chamber and. It has no moving parts. In the vortex chamber part of the gas exists via the cold exhaust directly and.