The diesel engine uses the intercooler for cooling of charging air by the turbo-charger. But the cooling efficiency of the intercooler which is influenced by the vehicle speed is decreased in low vehicle speed. If the vortex tubes are substituted for the intercooler due to their many intrinsic benefits in many industrial fields as parts for refrigerating machines, the cooling efficiency could be advanced in the low speed range. In this study, a counter-flow type of vortex tube is employed to investigate the temperature separation characteristics with various geometric configurations for optimization of charging air cooling. A parametric study was conducted to evaluate the performance of the vortex tube with various geometric structures and operating inlet pressures. The results show that variation of the cold exit orifice hole diameter significantly influences the energy separation between two exits.