Electropolishing cooling 1

[Enrique Dias]

Hi,

I have an equipent for electropolishing of stainless steel (AISI 3014, 316) and I need cooling unit for cooling of electropolishing bath. What power of cooling unit is required if rectifier is 8 V / 3 000 A, please?

Thank you in adavnce..

Enrique

 

[IRstuff]

What does the rectifier have to do with it? Surely, you can measure the starting and ending temperature and the time it took to get a better estimate of the power going into the bath directly?

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[MintJulep]

24 kW

 

[EdStainless]

You need to think about duty cycle.
With our system the power is only on about 60% of the time, and some of the heat goes into the metal also.
We sized our system for about 66% of the electrical power input and it works fine.
If your duty cycle is higher you will need to go bigger.

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[Enrique Dias]

Thanks a lot to all of you for your prompt responses! I was not just not sure, if there should not be calculated any additional heat arising from interaction with polished material or even chemical reaction.. Now, as I understand it is not necessary. Anyway, thank you once more!!