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- The basic numbers so far:
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- I got 2 degrees of oil cooling with something like 20 - 30 GPH
of fuel flow through heat exchanger.
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- Temperature rise in the tank was on the order of .1 degrees
(lets say it was .2 for sake of argument)
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- We need about 40 degrees of oil cooling, about 20 times what I got in
the experiment. Also means we need 20x the fuel flow or about 500
GPH (8 1/3 GPM).
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- Assuming this means a temp rise in the tank of 20 x .2 or 4
degrees, that implies that there is a huge margin of safety
here. And this was only using one of the two tanks. If
it was required, I'd be happy to utilize both tanks.
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- I will be the first to admit that this sounds too good to be
true. I must repeat the experiment to verify the basic
numbers.
You didn't
mention the fuel exit temperature (from the heat exchanger). Did you
measure that temperature?
Of course,
you would not want to use the high-pressure fuel pump to move 8 GPM.
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