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Design and Fabrication of Vortex Tube

M.Khaja Gulam Hussain

Abstract


In present days refrigeration plays a crucial role in many applications which can be attained with different systems such as vapor compression, vapor absorption and air refrigeration systems etc. All the above systems are expensive having complicated design and required many assembled parts (compressor, condenser, evaporator etc).In order to reduce this problem we can move to a new component known as Vortex Tube and it requires only compressed air (compressor).The Vortex Tube is a simple device, having no moving parts, which produces hot and cold air streams simultaneously at its two ends from source of compressed air. Literature reviews that there is no theory so perfect, which gives the satisfactory the explanation of the vortex tube phenomenon as explained by various researchers. Still research is going on to find it. Design the vortex tube to understand the heat transfer characteristics in a vortex tube with respect to various parameters like nozzle area of inlet compressed air, cold orifice area, hot end area of the tube, and L/D ratio.

 

Keywords: Compressor, condenser, evaporator, cooling effect, L/D ratio.


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