dyno cooling tower
dyno cooling tower
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Hello,
I have an old dyno here that I could like to use to tune my FI.
I need to circulate about 8 M3 of water per hour and cool the water from 60 °C-20°C.
Can someone supply me some data regarding the kind of airflow I would need to get the water cooled down in the tower ? What type of fan ?
What would be the best design tower to use. I don't want it to get to big either.
Thanks
I have an old dyno here that I could like to use to tune my FI.
I need to circulate about 8 M3 of water per hour and cool the water from 60 °C-20°C.
Can someone supply me some data regarding the kind of airflow I would need to get the water cooled down in the tower ? What type of fan ?
What would be the best design tower to use. I don't want it to get to big either.
Thanks





RE: dyno cooling tower
You could use an array of radiators.
Or a pair of 8m3 tanks, which would let you run for an hour, just pumping from one to the other, then let the water cool while you're out buying replacement parts.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: dyno cooling tower
I have space and budget constraints to consider, which is why i can't place large tanks or a series of rads. Regarding space and cost, i would think a self built cooling tower would be ideal..
RE: dyno cooling tower
The reason it was infrequent, of course, is that his neighbors didn't much like him tuning engines at midnight.
How much tank size do you have, and how long do you expect to tune per session?
RE: dyno cooling tower
As Mike said, evaporative cooling towers efficiency varies hugely with climate. I would expect that in Belgium that they work reasonably well. Local suppliers should be your best advisers. This is probably the wrong forum to ask this question.
Regards
Pat
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Even being more devious and sneaky, I might even sniff out the building demolition people, and see if there is some office block being demolished somewhere nearby with a likely cooling tower on the roof.
A few cartons of beer to the site supervisor and his merry demolition crew might just score you a whole entire cooling tower for free.
These things are expensive to buy new, but have zero scrap value.
RE: dyno cooling tower
RE: dyno cooling tower
I hope that the bored well I have is ample enough to supple a 160 l/min water.
RE: dyno cooling tower
You could circulate your dyno coolant through pipes which you thoughtfully inserted before it froze up. Obviously, the circulating tubes would need to be empty until you were ready to introduce the circulating water.
It would seem that such an approach should give you a few hours play time until like Mike pointed out, it would be time to run out for new parts.
RE: dyno cooling tower
Regards
Pat
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