Design and Performance Evaluation ofa vortex tube form by Aluminum Material

Vortex tube is a non – conventional cooling device, having stationary parts which will produce cold air and hot air from the source of compressed air without effecting the environment. When a high pressure air is tangentially injected into the vortex chamber, a strong vortex flow will be created which will be split into two air streams. The present work mainly focuses on design and fabricating the vortex tube with aluminium material. After fabricating, the performance of the Vortex tube is evaluated for different diameters of orifice and inlet pressures. Cooling effect and Heating effect are selected and COP as performance measures. (paper)