Design & Fabrication of Vortex Tube for Industrial Cooling

Abstract

A cooling system is very important for both man and machine. In general vapor compression refrigeration system and vapor absorption refrigeration system are used for refrigeration purpose. Vortex tube cooling system is a non-conventional type of cooling system which is not used widely for cooling purpose. But it has many advantages over the conventional cooling system. This project attempt has been made to construct a counter flow vortex tube and its experimental setup has also been designed. Our objective is to check the performance of counter flow vortex tube by changing the various geometrical parameters such as Tube Length and diameter of hot end pipe and cold end pipe, Ratio of tube length over diameter and Vortex angle so that we increase the performance of the vortex tube. We had also predicted some of the experimental data that are available and observed the performance variation by changing working parameters at inlet such as temperature and pressure.