Paul Lamar Wrote:

If you can figre out how to heat water with 150 HP's worth
of heat (111,900 watts or 6400 BTU's per minute) you
could check the overall functioning of your entire
cooling system before you went flying. Perhaps a
natural gas water heater in the bed of the pickup truck.

I would welcome comments and suggestions for improvements.

Dave Stanfield wrote:

The use of a fluid with a lower specific heat capacity and higher thermal resistance such as some of the Dow Chemical high temp heat transfer fluids may be useful in simulating how the setup will perform with a water-glycol mix while requiring a lower system BTU input.  However, the cost of the fluid may negate any of its advantages.

That's interesting. Got any more details? How would one
go about implementing that?

Paul Lamar
 
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