Design and Study of effect of number of entries in vortex tube coupled to heat pipe embedded intercooler system

mechanical engineering

Compressed air gets heated during compression and if the temperature is not brought down the power consumption increases for second stage compression therefore air is needed to be cooled which is conventionally done using air cooling method of intercooler tube type arrangement which requires considerable space, volume and weight. The conventional intercooler does not give sufficient temperature drop; therefore it was thought to investigate another innovative method to transfer the air heat to atmosphere. The vortex tube is a device, having no any moving parts, which produces hot and cold air streams simultaneously at its two ends from a source of compressed air. The project aims at design development fabrication, analysis and testing of the cylindrical heat pipe embedded intercooler and multi entry vortex tube for cooling the flood lubrication system. Which has been modeled using Unigraphix-Nx-8, thermal analysis has been done using Ansys-workbench 16.0. The model of the cylindrical intercooler channel has been tested using a test rig and the results have being plotted. Optimum performance is obtained with multi entry vortex tube with heat pipe embedded intercooler.

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