Originally Posted by Smackre  Say you have 120 gallons of coolant. Oil coolant. That is raising 16 degrees per hour. But you wanted it to stay below 70 degree's always. How would you go about keeping it cool. From my calulations you need some place around 14000BTU to cool the oil off.
I have been looking into afew options.
One is pipeing it into the ground into geothermal lines to cool it off.
Another is to pipe it outside and run a big fan on it. A radiator type of design.
Another would be refrigeration cooling. But that is very $$. But a option.
A third would be buy a used machine like this.
http://www.hgrindustrialsurplus.com/...entPageIndex=1
Now I talked to the manufacture of that thing I just linked. They said it was a 23000 BTU unit. Now I also talked to a heating and cooling guy and he said he dont think there is no way its 23000BTU. He though it was more like 2400BTU max.
So how would you guys go about cooling this oil. We are looking into a solution that is long term but economical. |
http://forums.extremeoverclocking.co...d.php?t=101902
Linked is a computer overclocking forum. I am not going into details, but you can follow that similar method and run the coolant through it... not sure how many btu's you would need, but you could tune for capacity instead of low temps. Add a txv or cpev and i think that you could manage to keep that thing far below ambient for relativly cheap
Hope this made sense. Just a cool idea.
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