Vortex tube is a simple structure and environmentally friendly method of temperature separation. In this paper, the applicability of the vehicle air conditioning system using the Vortex tube was reviewed. Experimental conditions, the pressure was set at 0.5~5.0kgf/cm2, and the cold air flow ratio (yc) was set at 0.1~0.9. Experiment result, the high temperature section represents the highest temperature value at yc=0.8. The cold zone represents the lowest temperature value at yc=0.5. In case of indirect heat exchanger experiment result, the maximum temperature difference was 11°C in the cold zone and 15°C in the hot zone. In case of direct heat exchange, the low temperature area was 11°C and the high temperature area was 11°C. According to the experiment result, although indirect heat exchange method performs better than direct heat exchange method, the time to reach normal temperature is four times slower than direct heat exchange method. Therefore, in order to apply to a vehicle air conditioning system, it is judged that it is effective to use a direct heat exchange method having a fast reaction speed and a low flow rate resistance.

Vortex tubes are simple tubes that can separate hot and cold air from compressed air without any internal device configuration and are used in many industries. If the vortex tube with these advantages is applied to an air conditioning system, it will be free from the use of refrigerant. In this study, basic study on discharge flow rate and temperature separation characteristics was carried out by varying the number of generator nozzle hole in various shapes of the vortex tube according to the inlet pressure of the vortex tube. Experimental results show that as the number of nozzles increases, the discharge flow rate tends to decrease and the temperature separation characteristics were excellent in the number of nozzles 6~7.

본 연구는 소와 돼지 식육부산물의 위생처리를 위한 볼텍스 튜브를 이용한 오존수 제조 장치를 개발 하기 위해 수행되었다. 오존가스발생에 있어서 가장 중요한 인자는 원료공기의 온도이며, 위생처리를 위한 오존수 내 오존농도에 크게 영향을 미친다. 이러한 이유 때문에 오존발생기로 유입되는 원료공기의 온도를 낮추기 위해 볼텍스 튜브가 이용되었다. 성능평가의 결과에 의하면, 공기압축기의 배출공기 압력 3~5bar, 볼텍스 튜브의 냉기비율 40~80%와 냉각공기의 압력 0.0~0.4bar가 28.2℃의 주변 공기 온도 하에서 볼텍스 튜브의 냉각공기의 온도에 교호적으로 작용하는 것으로 나타났으며(p<0.05), 최적 조건은 공기압축기의 배출공기 압력 4bar, 볼텍스 튜브의 냉기비율 40%, 냉각공기의 압력 0.3bar이었다. 최적조건과 주변 공기온도 35℃ 하에서 볼텍스 튜브를 이용한 오존수 제조 장치의 성능을 평가한 결과에 의하면, 오존수 내 오존농도가 0.43ppm 이상이었다. 따라서 볼텍스 튜브를 이용한 오존수 제조 장치의 성능이 우수하여 여름철 악조건 하에서도 이용이 가능한 것으로 판단된다.

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.

Recently, the Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube is widely used for the local cooler of industrial equipment for special purpose. Although many studies on energy extraction in the vortex tube using air as the working fluid have been made so far, a few experimental studies treated solid particles extraction for incompressible fluid. So, an experimental study for the solid particles extraction in the vortex tube(Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube) using the water which is essentially an incompressible fluid is presented. The experiments were carried out with various cold end orifice diameter ratios ranging from 0.25 to 0.70, the input pressure ranging from 1 to 3MPa was considered. The emphasis was given to examine the effect of geometry factors of vortex tube at working fluid(water) for solid particles(Al2O3) extraction. The optimum geometry factor and inlet pressure for the maximum solid particles extraction was found that the smaller cold end orifice diameter ratio and the higher inlet pressure in experimental condition increase.

Heat transfer enhancement of fin-tube heat exchangers with vortex generators is investigated using naphthalene sublimation technique. Experiments are performed for the fin-flat tube and the fin-circular tube heat exchangers with and without vortex generator. Vortex generators are found to enhance heat transfer rate on the fin surface dramatically. Their effect is relatively high in the fin-flat tube heat exchanger compared to fin-circular tube heat exchanger. Performance test is done for the prototype of air-conditioning heat exchanger and gas boiler heat exchanger with and without vortex generators .Fin-flat tube heat exchanger with vortex generator promote local heat transfer coefficient by 75% and increase friction factor, but friction of fin-flat tube heat exchanger with vortex generator is lower than that of fin-circular tube heat exchanger without vortex generator by 45%

Vortex tube is a simple device which can produce two streams of hot and cold temperature without any chemical reaction from a compressed gas stream. Recently, it is expected to be not only one of the possible alternative cooling methods to reduce environmental hazard but also various applications. Small size vortex tube is widely used in industrial application, just like a spot cooling devices, however, it is not enough to study length effect of the vortex tube yet. Therefore, experiments were carried out in various vortex length ratio(L/D=10-55) to find an appropriate geometry of vortex tube length at 5.6mm diameter, under optimum conditions, i.e. vortex nozzle area ratio(Sn=0.155) and cold end orifice diameter ratio(ζ=0.446). Working fluids was used air. The results shows that L=25D is design guide in the vortex tube.