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EXPERIMENTAL AND 3D-CFD STUDY ON OPTIMIZATION OF CONTROL VALVE DIAMETER FOR A CONVERGENT VORTEX TUBE

Abstract
The aim of this investigation is study on separation phenomenon inside a special vortex tube affected by structural and physical factors including; throttle diameter, nozzle number and injection pressure as well as the parametric optimization based on separation efficiency using experimental and 3D-CFD methods. The results show that convergent VT with Dth=5.5mm provides 30.01% and 20.04% higher cooling and heating effectiveness compared to basic model. As another result, the higher injection pressure, the higher cooling effectiveness. The cooling effectiveness improves(16.86%) with increase in slot number up to N=4, then decreases. The maximum disagreement between experimental and predicted values is 6.25%.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5098/hmt.7.13
ISSN: 2151-8629