Cooling with oil

[MK1Scirocco16v at comcast.net (Dave Ewing)]

If you live in a temperate area couldn't you just used distilled water?

Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Toomasson" <jtoomasson@yahoo.com>
To: "Dan Bubb" <jdbubb@ix.netcom.com>; "Kervin Ridgley"
<kridgley@brownscar.com>; "list" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: Cooling with oil


> Just to provide a little clarification, oil wouldn't work in this
> application because its specific heat coefficient is MUCH higher than
water
> or glycol. Since pure water has a low specific heat (dH = 1.0), it has a
> greater cooling capacity in that it can _exchange_ heat faster that a
medium
> with a higher specific heat - also provided it has an outlet to exchange
> that heat to (i.e., radiator). You are right that oil could absorb more
heat
> in the long run but the internal combustion engine generates so much heat
so
> fast that it has to exchange it faster that a high specific heat material
> could provide.
>
> Aside from its corrosive properties pure water is a nearly perfect heat
> exchange medium in a pressurized system.
>
> HTH, JT
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dan Bubb" <jdbubb@ix.netcom.com>
> To: "Kervin Ridgley" <kridgley@brownscar.com>; "list"
> <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 7:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Cooling with oil
>
>
> > Oil is more viscous than water so it would pump slower. That would
reduce
> > cooling capacity.
> > Oil also has less thermal capacity than water so the amount of heat that
> > could be carried by a given volume of coolant would also decrease. That
> > would also decrease cooling capacity.
> > OTOH you would never have any corrosion in your cooling system!
> > Dan
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kervin Ridgley" <kridgley@brownscar.com>
> > To: "list" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:10 AM
> > Subject: Cooling with oil
> >
> >
> > I was wondering if you could take the coolant out of a JH engine and
fill
> it
> > with oil and have it work.  I don't plan on doing it, I was just
> wondering,
> > maybe I just need another cup of coffee.
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