At 02:31 PM 4/9/2001, Joel Walker wrote: > > Has anyone tried a correctly engineered propylene glycol coolant? >The Evans system (no water=no corrosion) sounds very promising. Check >it out at: http://www.evanscooling.com/ > >kinda odd to see the claims that they are making for prop. glycol .... >what i've heard (and read on the backs of the containers) is that p. >glycol is NOT as efficient as the ethylene glycol ... that is, a >e.glycol mix goes to lower temps in winter and higher temps in summer >(than the p.glycol mix). this sounds like the same old Sierra p.glycol >mix of a few years ago. the package kinda looks like it, too. Ethylene glycol freezing point -12.7C -- Propylene glycol f.p. -60C -- you have to use more pg than eg in an aqueous mix because it doesn't depress the freezing point as much; but eg reaches a minimum and starts rising again while pg either doesn't rise at all or else not nearly as much. Per info on the site, thermal capacity is similar to 50/50 eg mix (caveat -- numbers given in xx/mole -- I'm assuming that a mole of mix is similar amount to a mole of pg). Dow makes the stuff, here's their data site on both -- they have a bunch of pdf data, haven't looked at it yet. http://www.dow.com/dog/apps/apps16.htm david
>only thing i saw with p.glycol was that it wasn't poisonous to animals >and people ... the e.glycol is definitely poisonous. :( > >joel David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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