• Shavo Technologies Private Limited

Vortex Tube

The stainless steel Vortex Tube converts compressed air into two airflows, one extremely cold and the other extremely hot. Vortex Tube has no moving parts and can produce temperatures from -60ºC to +110ºC and maintain temperatures at +/-0.6ºC. Compressed air enters the spin chamber tangentially. This causes the column of air inside the tube to rotate at a very high speed (up to 1 million rpm). The air at the outside of the column, moving very fast, has a lot of energy and is hot. The air at the centre of the column, moving relatively slowly, has little energy and is cold. The hot outer air, is bled off at one end of the tube and the cold inner air at the other. The percentage of the air exiting the cold end is called the cold fraction and is adjustable by a valve.