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Originally Posted by teoman
Are you going to draw hot fluid from it or push through it?
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I'm going to use the pump to push the water through the exchanger. I'm also considering the use of an accumulator to reduce the dynamic stresses on the water pump and tubing. Good idea on the check valve.
The Lytron unit is not suitable for what I want to do, though. It would appear that copper and ethanol do not play well together, and the Lytron unit uses copper for brazing the stainless steel plates together. For something that i supposed to heat up 50/50 mixtures of water and ethanol to 90 C, it's probably not a good idea to use this exchanger. I have found a nickel-brazed stainless steel heat exchanger,