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Unread 09-23-2003, 12:19 AM   #43
Althornin
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Originally posted by superart
You want low flow in a chiller, so as to give the water more "time" to get cooled off.
this is the same sort of thinking that says you'd want low flow through a rad, for the same reason. But it seems wrong to me. Higher flow results in same avg time for each "piece" of water to spend in chiller block. Delta T is higher, so more efficient heat transfer.
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