Lol that’s what I tell people too.
It’s okay, we’re assholes, but if we try, we can be assholes in recovery.
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Has anyone had experience with Thermonics?
That thing would be awesome for recovery
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This water chiller?
Do you normally use a cs100?
That unit is about 5 ton nominal, I’d probably do a 10t tower lest you have a hot day.
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I use the open jacket shotgun condenser with dry ice right now. I would probably want something in the power range of a cs200. I have 18kw of heat available, I should have that same amount of power to condense. The 915 is just to keep and get everything cold
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Curious
How cold to power steering coolers get isopropanol or whatever people use in their chillerz?
I read something about it here, but haven’t found anything online other than it dropping temps by 60-70c (for power steering fluid), does that make butane -30c - -40c?
ETS sells G&D Chillers so you should of been recommended that GD10… Who is the sales person you dealt with?
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Bzb website recomends;
Cole from ets
Is this just for the heat exchanger
I can call Boris right now and he’ll agree with me on this statement. Unless you only have 9-12kw of heat. You should have the same amount of power to condense as you do to push vapor.
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To be fair I think this was the chiller on the medium live resin hexapod I was quoted. What should they have quoted?
But it makes sense that you have equal cooling and heating power as it’s a closed loop and all.
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Honestly, I don’t know. I just giggled it. $24.5k for new ones. Probably get 1slightly used and a spare for that price.
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Oh they are definitely more affordable, I won’t disagree at all. I was only meaning to say for it to be able to operate properly they should be matching powers
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Thanks for all the info everyone. It’s been very helpful and will save some nice people a few bucks.
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it’s a heat exchanger.
how much heat it adds or removes depends on how you use it.
(not to mention not all “power steering coolers” are the same size)
relevant parameters that will vary by application:
delta T == difference between hot side and cold side
flow rate == matters on cold AND hot side
HX area == how much surface area is available for heat transfer
heat capacity of transfer fluid; water will remove more heat than glycol at the same flow rate and deltaT.
the cold side will tend to the same temp. that of the isopropanol & dry ice slurry. about -80C.
how cold the WARM side gets will depend on the parameters above, AND the size of the heat load.
the numbers for AIR to LIQUID cooling POWER STEERING FLUID are not going to be relevant to liquid/liquid cooling of your extraction solvent. the ONLY thing that remains constant between those two is the surface area of the HX.
deltaT, the flow rates, and the heat capacities of the fluids involved are all wildly different between those use cases.
this might be relevant: https://www.pdhonline.com/courses/m371/m371content.pdf
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how’s it working for them, are they happy with the unit?