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Cooling salt water with minimal cost.

Bigmacpie
Bigmacpie over 2 years ago

So, I’m curious if it’s possible to cool a large body of salt water using pipes with cooler flowing water. How would one make an efficient simplistic system to do this. I have read that copper pipes with cold flowing water through them wold cool the water but with salt water corrosion would be a big issue. Also what would be the easiest way to pump the cold water through the pipes and recirculate it back around through a cooling mechanism? 

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  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett over 2 years ago +4
    A lot of your problems in this area have been solved by people making "keel cooling" systems for boats. The applications are different but many of the components used might be suitable for your purpose…
  • bobthemallett
    bobthemallett over 2 years ago +2
    There's lots of data available on dealing with salt water corrosion but almost anything will add to the cost, such as using A4 (Marine) grade Stainless Steel. Using a heat-exchanger to increase the effective…
  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave over 2 years ago in reply to Bigmacpie +1
    In the construction of the Hoover Dam, around 600miles of 1" diameter steel pipe was used for the mass concrete cooling process. Before that, Fulgence Bienvenüe used similar cooling techniques to freeze…
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    0 anniel747 over 2 years ago

    You could try to fabricate a heat pipe with stainless tubing.

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    0 anniel747 over 2 years ago in reply to anniel747

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Heat_pipe

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    0 anniel747 over 2 years ago in reply to anniel747

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Heat_pipe

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