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Design and Analysis of Vortex Tube

Vaibhav govind Nipunage, satish Totaram birhade

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Abstract

Nowadays refrigeration plays a vital role in our day to day life for the preservation of food, medicine, and air conditioning. In the current situation conventional refrigeration system most of the time uses freon as a refrigerant. Which is mainly responsible for the depletion of the ozone layer and hence it indirectly affects the health of the human being. To overcome all these difficulties vortex tube can be used as an alternate refrigeration system. The vortex tube is a device that produces two streams of air one is a hot air stream and another is cold air stream from the inlet compressed air. This research is mainly focused on the different parameters on which the cooling effect of the vortex tube is dependent and the changes in the conventional design of the vortex tube to improve the cooling effect.

Keywords: vortex tube, hot air and cold air, cooling effect.

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V.G. Nipunage, S.T. Birhade. Design and Analysis of Vortex Tube. Journal of Thermal Engineering and Applications. 2020; 7(2): 30–36p.



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vortex tube, hot air and cold air, cooling effect.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37591/jotea.v7i2.4173

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