The purpose of this experiment was to find out whether the Vortex Tube works
as a successful heating and cooling source. It is to determine whether this
device could be used as that heating and cooling source in houses.

This experiment was performed by an assembled Vortex system to not only transform compressed air into hot and cold air, but also transport it to
different areas (as an air conditioning unit does).

The Vortex Tube was in the center, connected to the different tubes and
pilots. .The Vortex Tube and the system was to be connected to a number of additional tubes. The two extremes of temperature traveled through these
tubes into sealed and hollow cubes (these cubes would be the rooms of a house). A
thermometer was attached to each sealed cube, displaying the temperature of the air inside. There was ten of these cubes testing different temperatures, going from freezing point to boiling point. The valves on the exhaust lines (which connect to the ten tubes that go into each cube) controlled the temperatures that are produced from the system. The system tested how productively the temperatures can be controlled, as well as whether the whole system will productively produce hot and cold air. The whole system, including the cubes. The experiment was performed twice to check the consistency of the results.

The ten different valve settings for the hot air varied from tight to
loose. When the valve was at 1(the rating of the tightness of the valve, 1=tight-10=loose) the temperature was 78 C. When the valve was at 2 the temperature produced was 87 C. When the valve was at a rating of 5, the temperature produced was 99 C. When the valve
was at a rating of 7, the temperature produced was 110 C. Then finally when the valve was at a rating of 10, the temperature was 135 C. The cold air was then tested, and when the valve was at a rating of 1 the temperature produced was 49 C. When the valve was at 2 the temperature produced was 45 C. When the valve was at a rating of 5, the temperature produced was 10 C. When the valve was at a rating of 7, the temperature
produced was -7 C. Then when the valve was at a rating of 10, the temperature was -79 C.

In the experiment, the tightness of the valve had a large impact on the temperatures produced. The hot temperatures increased, as the valve became loose. With the cold air, as the valve became loose the cold temperatures
decreased.

These results occurred because of the setting of the valve. For hot air
the tighter the valve was the lower the hot temperature was. When the valve was loose more air could be released at the temperature that it reaches in the tube, while when it was tight the air eventually looses it temperature and travels by, not escaping the tube. With the cold air, as the tube became loose the temperature decreased. The cooled air becomes colder as it passes through the tube, and then is released.

This experiment and its results could have a profound impact on the lives of others. The data and results of this experiment demonstrate how this
system and concept could be used as a reliable air conditioning and heating source. This system could be an alternative to the current forms of heating and cooling. The system would be very inexpensive, cost effective, and the vortex tube itself would not use any moving parts.

By Kent M.