Where is your shop located and what type of work do yall do?
I’m located in WA.
I’m in Richardson, Texas…
Richardson, Tx. We are a CNC machine shop… mill and lathe work
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Job shop?
What do you use for cooling?
Feeling Hot Hot Hot!
Falling on Film
or failing on film,
or you know, whatever.
voices suggested that just like I heated my first CLS BHO rig with a hot water heater element in a 8" piece of 2" “black pipe” (actually ran in to that device today), I could power an FFE using 6" triclamp spools and these 3-phase heating elements.
https://www.glaciertanks.com/electric-3-phase-elements.html
if one used jacketed spools, one could insulate by pulling vac.
a 19" server rack could hold 6 of them which is over 100kw of 3-phase Hot Water heater.
which seems like a fair bit of atmospheric, air cooled FFE powering solvent begone…
one could actually convert say an Ex40 to a Exo72kw 
Edit: pair it with one of their plate chillers in the appropriate size, and an air/water heat exchanger and your solvent reappears by blowing on it.
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Why isn t steam used it s way cheaper and has a lot better thermodynamic propertys of exchanging heat on stainless steel
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Most are. We used steam for our RnD sled for convenience and safety reasons. But production models are typically steam
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Bc steam is scary
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i love hot oil.
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Prv s take care of that
But realize it transfers heat 6x beter than hot water
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Yes absolutely it’s definitely a good option just imagine a heat exchanger blowing up and throwing crude+tinture everywhere…
My skills are not up to it
But i mirror much of what i do to industry and steam is still very much used
And what i like about it is that most prv and traps in steam setup s are mechanical very simple models with very high safety ratings
I wish i understood a faling film better
But i am a visual person see one working and i get it
Got to get my eyes on a unit 
Using steam triggers another level of regulation…but yeah, it works better, and is therefore a more rational approach to the problem. Those 48" heater elements just look like fun
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Aha regulations
I noticed that by heating my jacketed
Still that connects to the internal coil with a 15 psi prv at the end speeds my distillation by 50% at least
And by fine tuning the burners i kan have most steam condense in the coil and have gravity return it to the boiling water
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now I want to light a fire under a defleg…
edit: so conceivably the same style heat exchanger for boiler, evaporator AND condenser…just wow.
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Nice pitty the damn deplegmators are so pricy got to find me a china producer
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nah, it just needs a little cleaning
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now you get it 