Method of designing a vortex tube for energy separation

Details Method of designing a vortex tube for energy separation Method of designing a vortex tube for energy separation

1993-06-03

1994-07-12

Tapolcai, William E.

Refrigeration

Vortex tube, e.g., ranque

F25B 902

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053277287

ABSTRACT:
A method for the design of a vortex tube for energy separation, the vortex tube having a long tube with a diameter Do, a diaphragm closing one end of the tube having a hole with diameter d.sub.1 in the center, one or more tangential nozzles with a total area F piercing the tube just inside the diaphragm, and a throttling valve at the far end of the tube, wherein conventionally describing in terms of the relative parameters are as follows:

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patent: 1952281 (1934-03-01), Ranque
patent: 3208229 (1965-09-01), Fulton
patent: 3968659 (1976-07-01), Pilcher
patent: 4240261 (1980-12-01), Inglis
Abstract of Soviet publication, "Vortex Tube Application in the Layout Natural Gas Field Treatment", No. 5 of 1979, pp. 36-39.
Hilsch, R. "The Use of the Expansion of Gases in a Centrifugal Field as Cooling Process", The Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 18, No. 2, (Feb. 1947), pp. 108-113.
Webster, D. S. "An Analysis of the Hilsch Vortex Tube", Journal of the ASRE, (Feb. 1950), pp. 163-170.
Fulton, C. D. "Ranque's Tube", Journal of the ASRE, (May 1950), pp. 473-479.

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