>From practical experience I have to agree with this line of reasoning.
My other hobby is brewing beer and one of the steps is to lower the
temperature of the wort as quickly as possible before pitching the yeast. I
used to use an immersion chiller, a coil of copper tubing immersed in the
wort connected to the tap (faucet) with water running through it. If I let the
water run fast, it was still cool at the outlet and the wort took forever to
cool
down, while if I slowed down the flow of water it was hot enough at the outlet
that I couldn't hold my hand under it and it sped up the cooling process. Still
a terrible waste of water though.
Now, having said that, maybe there's some magic in a closed system that
turns my observation on its head.
Andy
On 05/15/98 12:09 AM Joe Curry said...
>
>John,
>One thing that often gets lost in this conversation, is that while
>removing the thermostat often makes the temperature gauge read lower.
>But does this mean that the engine is cooler? Or maybe the water is
>cooler. If the water is moving faster through the engine and doesn't
>pick up as much heat, it would appear by the gauge that the engine is
>cooler when in fact it may not be.
>
>In my very humble opinion, the thermostat should never be removed from
a
>car during normal operation. Surely those engineers know more than I
>do.
>
>Joe Curry
>
>John Cowan wrote:
>>
>> With all due respect to Trevor: Saying it don't make it so. Far from
>> being debunked, the assertion that there is an optimum flow rate for
>> maximum heat transfer out the radiator has received ample backup on
the
>> list. This thread resumes each year about the time the trees begin to
bud
>> and people are as passionate in their support of their analyses as they
are
>> support of their religious beliefs.
>> I have been meaning to go to the local engineering college and look
up
>> "the radiator problem", which surely appears as a homework assignment
or on
>> Heat Transfer midterms hundreds of time each year. Stay tuned.
>> John Cowan
>>
>> At 03:51 PM 5/13/98 -0400, you wrote:
>> >
>> >(Richard Triplett) wrote:
>> >> (1)Don't remove the thermostat in an attempt to prevent overheating,
>> >> because the thermostat does several things; it maintains the engine
at its
>> >> most efficient temperature, slows flow of water through radiator to
ensure
>> >> heat dissipation (if water flows too fast, heat transfer will be reduced),
>> >
>> > Although the thermostat has it's purpose, the "flowing too fast"
>> >myth has been debunked many times on this list. It has no basis
>> >in science.
>> >
>> > Refer to the archives for the meat of the discussion.
>> >
>> >--
>> >Trevor Boicey, Ottawa, Canada.
>> >tboicey@brit.ca, http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
>> >[ Seeking some miscellaneous MG parts, see the list on the web page...
]
>> >
>> >
>
>--
>"If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
>
> -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer
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