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Vortec Cooling Solutions: Ensuring Efficiency and Safety in Diverse Applications
4/12/2024byVortec Engineer
From industrial settings to personal applications, maintaining optimal temperatures is crucial for equipment longevity and human safety. Vortec is proud to be a leader in compresses air cooling solutions for over 6 decades and has engineered a range of innovative cooling solutions tailored to diverse needs. In this blog post, we delve into the various types of cooling solutions offered by Vortec and how they cater to different customer applications and needs.
Read moreVortex Tubes Cool Where Water Can’t
8/2/2023byVortec Engineer
When that heat goes unchecked it can warp injection molds, ruining tools and creating off-spec parts. It’s an expensive problem, as replacing molds can cost thousands of dollars. Fortunately, the fix doesn’t have to be so costly.
Read moreVortec Solutions: From A to Z
5/31/2022byVortec Engineer
At Vortec we have a wide range of compressed air solutions for your unique manufacturing needs. Take a deeper dive into the different industrial products we offer for a wide range of manufacturing applications!
Read moreKeeping it Cool with Vortex
2/15/2022byVortec Engineer
Thermal testing has proven that natural convection cooling is not adequate for today’s smaller, high power density enclosures. Heat dissipation by forced convection (fan cooling) is the most frequently used method of cooling. Forced air-cooling systems can provide heat transfer rates that are ten times greater than those achievable with natural convection and radiation, but even this is not adequate to cool faster electronic components when they are located in hostile plant environments.
Read moreAerospace and Aviation Cooling Application
4/6/2018byVortec Engineer
A large domestic component repair facility that specializes in re-building and testing hydraulic, electro-mechanical and fuel system components for the aerospace and aviation industries needed a solution to cool a fuel control valve for one of their customers. The control valve must accurately regulate fuel flow in response to the temperature. One of the tests required the valve to be cooled to -25°F plus or minus 2°, and the fuel flow measured.
Read moreCold Air Guns & Vortex Tubes - Adjusting the Temperature for your Application
3/8/2018byVortec Engineer
Cold Air Guns and vortex tubes are popular spot cooling products that are used in a wide variety of applications, ranging from cooling cutting tools such as band saw and circular saw blades, router bits, lathe tools, HSS drills and milling cutters used for machining of metals, plastics, paper and wood. They are also commonly used to cool parts, dehumidify gas samples, cool sensors, test thermostats and many other applications where an instant and reliable supply of clean cold air is required. Vortex tubes and Cold Air Guns have no moving parts and use only a clean dry source of compressed air for creating cooling capacities up to 6000 btuh (1758 watts).
Read moreVortex Tubes Put a Cool Spin on Dry Machining
12/21/2017byVortec Engineer
A great article by Eli Plaskett, from Modern Machine Shop, showing the versatility and effectiveness of our Vortex Tubes. There are some great tips on how to make the most out of your compressed air solution.Â
This technology offers an alternative to traditional liquid coolants by providing a clean stream of air as cold as -30°F to cool cutters and workpieces during machining.
Read moreThis technology offers an alternative to traditional liquid coolants by providing a clean stream of air as cold as -30°F to cool cutters and workpieces during machining.
Vortec Vortex Tubes: Built to Last
12/1/2017byVortec Engineer
Vortec recently received a call from one of our loyal customers inquiring about our vortex tubes. They were curious to see how long vortex tubes lasted before they should consider replacing them. Naturally, this peaked my interest, “Well hypothetically they should last forever if they are properly maintained. Why, how long have you had one?” Turns out, they have had one of our vortex tubes for over 45 years! Mind you, we were founded in 1961 (56 years ago) so this wasn’t the first vortex tube we ever built, but it’s not far off.
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Vortec Cooling Solutions: Ensuring Efficiency and Safety in Diverse Applications
4/12/2024byVortec Engineer
From industrial settings to personal applications, maintaining optimal temperatures is crucial for equipment longevity and human safety. Vortec is proud to be a leader in compresses air cooling solutions for over 6 decades and has engineered a range of innovative cooling solutions tailored to diverse needs. In this blog post, we delve into the various types of cooling solutions offered by Vortec and how they cater to different customer applications and needs.
Read moreVortex Tubes Cool Where Water Can’t
8/2/2023byVortec Engineer
When that heat goes unchecked it can warp injection molds, ruining tools and creating off-spec parts. It’s an expensive problem, as replacing molds can cost thousands of dollars. Fortunately, the fix doesn’t have to be so costly.
Read moreVortec Solutions: From A to Z
5/31/2022byVortec Engineer
At Vortec we have a wide range of compressed air solutions for your unique manufacturing needs. Take a deeper dive into the different industrial products we offer for a wide range of manufacturing applications!
Read moreKeeping it Cool with Vortex
2/15/2022byVortec Engineer
Thermal testing has proven that natural convection cooling is not adequate for today’s smaller, high power density enclosures. Heat dissipation by forced convection (fan cooling) is the most frequently used method of cooling. Forced air-cooling systems can provide heat transfer rates that are ten times greater than those achievable with natural convection and radiation, but even this is not adequate to cool faster electronic components when they are located in hostile plant environments.
Read moreAerospace and Aviation Cooling Application
4/6/2018byVortec Engineer
A large domestic component repair facility that specializes in re-building and testing hydraulic, electro-mechanical and fuel system components for the aerospace and aviation industries needed a solution to cool a fuel control valve for one of their customers. The control valve must accurately regulate fuel flow in response to the temperature. One of the tests required the valve to be cooled to -25°F plus or minus 2°, and the fuel flow measured.
Read moreCold Air Guns & Vortex Tubes - Adjusting the Temperature for your Application
3/8/2018byVortec Engineer
Cold Air Guns and vortex tubes are popular spot cooling products that are used in a wide variety of applications, ranging from cooling cutting tools such as band saw and circular saw blades, router bits, lathe tools, HSS drills and milling cutters used for machining of metals, plastics, paper and wood. They are also commonly used to cool parts, dehumidify gas samples, cool sensors, test thermostats and many other applications where an instant and reliable supply of clean cold air is required. Vortex tubes and Cold Air Guns have no moving parts and use only a clean dry source of compressed air for creating cooling capacities up to 6000 btuh (1758 watts).
Read moreVortex Tubes Put a Cool Spin on Dry Machining
12/21/2017byVortec Engineer
A great article by Eli Plaskett, from Modern Machine Shop, showing the versatility and effectiveness of our Vortex Tubes. There are some great tips on how to make the most out of your compressed air solution.Â
This technology offers an alternative to traditional liquid coolants by providing a clean stream of air as cold as -30°F to cool cutters and workpieces during machining.
Read moreThis technology offers an alternative to traditional liquid coolants by providing a clean stream of air as cold as -30°F to cool cutters and workpieces during machining.
Vortec Vortex Tubes: Built to Last
12/1/2017byVortec Engineer
Vortec recently received a call from one of our loyal customers inquiring about our vortex tubes. They were curious to see how long vortex tubes lasted before they should consider replacing them. Naturally, this peaked my interest, “Well hypothetically they should last forever if they are properly maintained. Why, how long have you had one?” Turns out, they have had one of our vortex tubes for over 45 years! Mind you, we were founded in 1961 (56 years ago) so this wasn’t the first vortex tube we ever built, but it’s not far off.
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