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Old 08-03-2006, 08:39 PM
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Originally Posted by jgoldsney
Dont know if it would help a tank but is sure is a cool Idea
http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~gmilburn/ac/
Hey jgoldsney, nice to talk to you again..

Great link, Actually if you were to coild the copper tubes around a 'very thin' walled pipe that is food safe and connect the thin wall pipe to a small pump for more contact time with the coil, you have just created a very crude exchanger. The theory is that the heat from the tank water slowly pasing through the coil section will be pull out. Essentualy you are creating a simple emmersion chiller. Here is a link to a cheap home made chiller used by people that brew their own beer.

http://www.allaboutbeer.com/homebrew/equip/chiller.html
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