REVIEW ARTICLE
Experimental Evaluation of the Energy Performance of an Air Vortex Tube when the Inlet Parameters are Varied
E. Torrella1, J. Patiño2, D. Sánchez2, R. Llopis2, R. Cabello*, 2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2013Volume: 7
First Page: 98
Last Page: 107
Publisher Id: TOMEJ-7-98
DOI: 10.2174/1874155X01307010098
Article History:
Received Date: 26/11/2010Revision Received Date: 2/1/2011
Acceptance Date: 10/1/2011
Electronic publication date: 29/11/2013
Collection year: 2010
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The paper presents the analysis of the energy performance of an air vortex cooling tube under variations of the air inlet properties, with three independent experimental tests validated through the energy balance in the device.
The experimental analysis includes the following variations of the input conditions: First, the effect of the air inlet pressure to the vortex tube, focused on the analysis of temperature variations in the output cold stream and in the cooling capacity when the cold flow fraction varies. Second, we studied air inlet temperature variations to the vortex tube under different cold flow fractions, which is an analysis not found in the literature. And finally, is studied the performance of the vortex tube when the insulation is provided or in absence of insulation.
