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I bought 2 surplus factory made tubes to experiment with. One thought
was to use some of it's cooling to blow on the radiator and intercooler.
They aren't very large and I do not have a pressure graph for them. It
is fun to tinker, though.
David M.
EridanMan wrote:
> Hey Guys-
>
> Has anyone ever attempted to install a Hilsch Tube (Vortex Tube) in an
> aircraft for environmental controls?
>
> The setup I see would be very light, a 3 foot long PVC vortex tube (no
> more than 5 lbs) with a small exhaust turbocharger force-feeding it.
> Yes the Hilsch tube isn't a particularly efficiant cooling mechanism,
> but exaust-gas pressure is essentially 'wasted energy' anyways.
>
> It strikes me that controlling such a mechanism would be trivial
> (baffle the hot-cold ends of the tube to a controllable valve, and then
> into the cabin), lightweight, and relatively inexpensive...
>
> IT seems to perfect, why hasn't anyone done it before? (Hilsch tubes
> are already used as cooling mechanisms elsewhere.
>
> quick wiki reference- plenty more can be found online-
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube
>
> -Scott
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