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Old 03-26-2017, 11:52 PM   #32 (permalink)
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I have in my possession a Lytron LL820G12 heat exchanger that I got off eBay. It's a 20 plate model, stainless steel plates, and is copper-brazed. It's supposed to be able to transfer over 64000 BTU/hr, or 19000 W. I suspect that this heat exchanger should have little trouble heating up a water/ethanol mix at about 150 grams/min to 90 C from whatever ambient temperature is.

It's a long sucker, about 330 mm long. And it apparently had been used in to past to do something with oils or grease, so I got to figure some way to decontaminate it. I've washed it as much as I could with pressurized water from my shower-based waterpik, so I'll probably follow up with denatured ethanol or something.

This, along with my ShurFlow pump that I dug out of storage, and an E-85 capable fuel injector that I have left over from my engine project of last year, will provide the backbone of my system.
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