Experimental Investigation of Orifice Diameter, Swirl Generator and Conical Valve Shape to the Cooling Performance of Ranque-Hilsch Vortex Tube

Abstract:

This paper is about experimental investigation of the orifice diameter, swirl generator and conical valve shape influence the cooling performance of Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube. From the experiment, its shows that conical valve shape has smallest effect on cooling performance (0.124) of the Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube. It also revealed that swirl generator gave the greatest (0.336) effects to the cooling performance of Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube and have the highest range of difference cooling performance (0.027 to 0.229) compare to conical valve shape (0.073 to 0.087) and orifice diameter (0.009 to 0.012).

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 510)
• Pages: 174-178
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.510.174
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Nurhasanah Ismail, Wirachman Wisnoe, Muhammad Fairuz Remeli
• Keywords: Conical Valve Shape, Cooling Performance, Orifice Diameter, Ranque-Hilsch Vortex Tube, Swirl Generator

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