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Effect of the tube material on the thermal performance of a Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Mechanical Engineering Include (Fluid mechanics, Heat transfer, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Managements, industrial engineering, etc.

Abstract

The vortex tube is a very simple thermo-fluidic apparatus which generates low temperature and high temperature air streams. The inlet fluid is tangentially compressed into the inlet nozzles of vortex tube. The purpose of the submitted research is to discuss the thermal characteristics of vortex tube with aluminum material by changing some of working parameters which include pressure of the entry air and cold mass ratio. The values of inlet air pressure include (4, 6, 8, 10 bar), as well as the values of cold mass ratio, includes values from 0.4 to 0.9 by increment of 0.1. In the present investigation, the vortex tube is manufactured from aluminum material and the entire generator is made of polymer material which allows more lightness in weight of construction of vortex tube. The experimental outputs reveal that at 20 oC of inlet air temperate with 10 bar inlet air pressure the optimum hot air temperature reached 125 oC and the optimum cold air temperature maintained -14 oC at the same operation conditions. Moreover, the results of the present study were compared with previous published research work. Consequently, the outcomes of this study exhibited that the vortex tube with aluminum material enhanced the hot temperature separation by 70 % as well as more highly cold temperature separation closely to other empirical outputs.

DOI

10.21608/svusrc.2020.53277.1004

Keywords

vortex tube, Temperature separation, Tube material, COP, Cold mass fraction

Authors

First Name

Amany

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

Email

amanynaser2010@yahoo.com

City

Qena

Orcid

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First Name

Hussein

Last Name

Maghrabie

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

Email

hussein_mag@eng.svu.edu.eg

City

Qena

Orcid

0000-0002-1016-1049

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Attalla

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

Email

moha_attalla@yahoo.com

City

Qena

Orcid

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Volume

1

Article Issue

1

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19242

Issue Date

2020-12-01

Receive Date

2020-12-15

Publish Date

2020-12-01

Page Start

37

Page End

44

Print ISSN

2785-9967

Online ISSN

2735-4571

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1,585

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Publication Title

SVU-International Journal of Engineering Sciences and Applications

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https://svusrc.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Effect of the tube material on the thermal performance of a Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube

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Created At

23 Jan 2023