Fabrication and Capability Analysis of a Vortex Tube

Vortex tube is a cooling device which generates cold air and hot air from a single source of compressed air without affecting the environment. When a high pressure air is tangentially injected into vortex chamber a strong vortex flow will be created which will be split into two air streams. It can be used for any type of spot cooling or heating application. In this present work fabrication of vortex tube has been done. Performance of vortex tube is evaluated by varying the orifice diameters ranging from 4mm-8mm, and varying the inlet pressures from 4bar-7bar.