Is there a reason why alcohol (or a mixture of alcohol and water) isn't used as a refrigerant?
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Is there a reason why alcohol (or a mixture of alcohol and water) isn't used as a refrigerant?
We'd drink it all before we got to site....
Hi Bud,
Some systems use alcohol. You can tell as they make a wine. Some Brandys are worse than others but in the Absinthe of any data I can't say which ones are worse. Perhaps an industry inCider could help?
Cheers!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene_glycol
courtesy of wikipedia- glycol is similarly based to alcahol
In ww2 alcohol was used as an anti freeze mix with water in high altitude aircraft piston engines, not the drinkable version though. Much to the demise of a lot of aircraft mechanics that distilled it and drank it. Dead.
Probably before the oil based propylene and ethylene variants current these days.
http://www.grimsby.ac.uk/documents/d...frigetechs.pdf
This should be closer to what you seek NiHaoMike