Vortex Tubes

August 4, 2024
Corrosion and Vortex Tube
August 4, 2024
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Corrosion and Vortex Tube Operated Panel Coolers

Corrosion and Vortex Tube. When choosing a product, several choices and brands may seem similar. However, significant differences emerge beyond operating specifications. Often, factories overlook the materials used in products. This becomes crucial in special environments. In pharmaceutical […]
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April 11, 2024
Applications for Compressed Air Operated Vortex Tubes
April 11, 2024
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Applications for Compressed Air Operated Vortex Tubes

Applications for Compressed Air Operated Vortex Tubes. Compressed air-operated vortex tubes have been commercialized since 1960. These devices take compressed air at a given inlet temperature. And split the flow up into a hot (usually waste) and a […]
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November 2, 2021
Compliance cooling electrical enclosures
November 2, 2021
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Importance of Compliance for Cooling Electrical Enclosures Especially as they Apply to Vortex Coolers.

Air conditioners of various types utilized in the USA or Canada are required to meet certain safety standards with similar requirements in most other parts of the world. This is extremely important for industrial applications where they are used […]
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July 13, 2021
Seven Ways to make your Compressed Air Blow off and Cooling More Efficient
July 13, 2021
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Seven Ways to make your Compressed Air Blow off and Cooling More Efficient

Seven Ways to make your Compressed Air Blow off and Cooling More Efficient The majority of compressed air is used for blow off and cooling despite the push for alternate technologies like blowers simply because it is still […]
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May 5, 2021
May 5, 2021
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What is the Difference between pneumatics and hydraulics?

Pneumatics vs Hydraulics With the advent of the Covid 19 pandemic, there has been an acceleration toward automation. Packaging solutions and advances have also become important. Pneumatics plays a very large part in both automation and packaging as […]
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December 4, 2019
December 4, 2019
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How is Compressed Air used to Package Products?

Industrial Panel Air Conditioning Options and Trends The various options for cooling electrical cabinet coolers include, traditional compressor-based air conditioners, air-to-air heat exchangers (with heat pipes), thermoelectric air conditioners, and finally vortex coolers. Each cooling method has its […]
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November 29, 2019
November 29, 2019
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Vortex Tubes: Solution to Refrigerants’ Flammability and Cost Issues

A solution to Refrigerants’ Flammability Air conditioners are everywhere, in homes, cars, office buildings, and even factories. They are also used to cool small enclosures, in particular electrical and electronic control panels. It is these small enclosures that […]
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November 22, 2019
panel coolers prevent factory downtime
November 22, 2019
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How can panel coolers prevent factory downtime?

How can panel coolers prevent factory downtime? Electrical and electronic control panels are the heart of factory production.  Any problems that occur with them can cause minor to major production hiccups, slow downs and potential need for a […]
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November 15, 2019
The Nex Flow Difference
November 15, 2019
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The Nex Flow Difference: Why we treat our materials differently?

The Nex Flow Difference: Why we treat our materials differently? Nex Flow Air Products Corp. sets itself apart from its competitors by doing a few things differently with the materials that we use in manufacturing our products. While […]
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November 8, 2019
November 8, 2019
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Use Air Amplifiers and Vortex tubes to Emulate Wind Tunnel for lab tests

Wind tunnels are large tubes with air moving inside. These tunnels are used to test models of aircraft or other flying objects on their actions in flight. These models are scaled down versions of actual objects that will […]
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October 18, 2019
Using Compressed Air in Packaging
October 18, 2019
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How is Compressed Air used to Package Products?

Using Compressed Air in Packaging Compressed air is safe, reliable, and used in packaging products. The compressed air systems move materials from one area of the factory to another, perform blow-off, part drying, and align products for packaging. […]
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October 11, 2019
October 11, 2019
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Split Your Cold Vortex Tube Air Stream to Cool Multiple Spots

Vortex tubes are ideal for spot cooling and enclosure cooling.  Typically one vortex tube is used for one “spot” and for “one” enclosure.  But there are some situations where one vortex tube can be split into multiple “spots” […]
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September 19, 2019
September 19, 2019
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Vortex Tubes – An Alternative to Refrigerant for Industrial Cooling

Alternative to Refrigerant for Industrial Cooling One of the major contributors to the destruction of the ozone layer was chlorofluorocarbons or CFC’s used in air conditioning and refrigeration. Work on alternatives for CFC’s in refrigerants began in the […]
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August 21, 2019
Galvanic corrosion explained
August 21, 2019
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Galvanic Corrosion – What it is and how to prevent it?

Galvanic Corrosion – What it is and how to prevent it? Galvanic corrosion (also called bimetallic corrosion) is an electrochemical process in which one metal corrodes preferentially when it is in electrical contact with another, in the presence […]
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July 26, 2019
July 26, 2019
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Choosing The Best Spot Cooler for my Application

Choosing the best Spot Cooler What are Spot coolers and their Importance? Spot coolers are self-contained air conditioning systems that have all the components of larger air conditioning systems but are compact and easy to move.  Spot cooling […]
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July 11, 2019
Connecting Vortex Tube and Compressed Air
July 11, 2019
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Is Connecting Vortex Tube Output to Another Compressed Air Accessory Possible?

Vortex tubes are devices that take compressed air and spins it inside the unit creating a spinning air flow in one direction and spins the air flow back in the opposite direction within the first spinning air flow. […]
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June 28, 2019
How was the first vorex tube created
June 28, 2019
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How was the first Vortex tube Created?

How was the first Vortex tube Created? What is a Vortex tube? The Vortex tube is a mechanical device that separates compressed gas into two extreme temperature air currents.  It was initially named the Ranque-Hilsch Vortex tube, after the names of […]
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March 25, 2019
Plan with Nex Flow CAD models
March 25, 2019
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Plan with Nex Flow CAD Models, Drawings and Product Dimensions

Plan With Nex Flow CAD Models Today! Some product manufacturers require you to register your personal data to obtain drawings and technical data. Nex Flow does not – as we believe “information that will help you in choosing […]
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January 30, 2019
Flood Coolant Alternatives
January 30, 2019
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Alternatives to Flood Coolant. Mist Cooling System or Dry Machining?

Should I use a Mist Cooling System or go the route of Dry Machining to replace Flood Coolant? Machine operations still commonly use flood coolant but are working on ways to replace with alternate systems.   One such system […]
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November 21, 2018
Vortex tube working schematic
November 21, 2018
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How Vortex Tubes use compressed air to generate cold and hot air simultaneously?

What is a Vortex Tube? A durable, stainless steel “Vortex tube” is used to convert compressed air into cold temperatures, as low as -50 oF (- 46 oC) to spot cool as well as to air condition an […]
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June 13, 2018
Materials of a Vortex Cooler
June 13, 2018
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Are the Materials of a Vortex Cooler Important? They Sure Are!

Vortex Tube operated cabinet enclosure coolers such as the Nex Flow Frigix-X Panel Coolers operate utilizing compressed air wherein one end gets hot, and the other end gets cold. They find applications in particularly dirty environments and hot […]
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June 10, 2018
Considerations for cooling control panel
June 10, 2018
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Things To Consider – Cooling Control Panels

When choosing the means to cool control panels or any electrical and electronic enclosure, you need to consider the control panel rating and factory environment before selecting the best method. Nex Flow Air Products Corp. manufacturers and markets […]
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June 1, 2018
Nema and IP
June 1, 2018
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NEMA and IP Classifications Equivalency – A Chart to Guide You.

NEMA and IP Classifications Equivalency l and electronic enclosures while Europe and many other countries utilize IP classifications. This often causes some confusion. We found a great chart from Siemon that do IT infrastructure solutions what has a […]
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March 19, 2018
Galvanic corrossion
March 19, 2018
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Galvanic corrosion and materials used in air knives, amplifiers and vortex tube technology

Galvanic corrosion and materials Galvanic corrosion occurs when two dissimilar metals come into contact. It is also necessary for there to be moisture, but it is rare to find an environment without moisture. I still remember visiting a […]
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March 13, 2018
Use a Vortex tube to Cool
March 13, 2018
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Things to Consider – Considerations in Using a Vortex Tube to Cool

Considerations in Using a Vortex Tube to Cool Vortex Tubes are ideal for spot cooling due to their compact size and ease of use. But certain considerations must be kept in mind to use them effectively. In choosing […]
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January 5, 2018
Combining Air Amplifier and Vortex Tubes
January 5, 2018
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Can you Combine Air Amplification and Vortex Tube Technology?

Compressed air amplification draws in atmospheric air and mixes it with compressed air to amplify air flow. Vortex Tubes create freezing air from compressed air. But can you combine the cold air with the amplified air efficiently and […]
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