You'll probably want to take a class on thermal dynamics possibly add a couple of materials classes as well.what I do not understand is we run water cooled $300 compressors add extra fans ect. But the high
dollar Aikin & Bauer compressors are air cooled & do not seem to have little to no problems?
Some one please explain this to me.
Fly
Aluminum transfers heat/cold very well, copper is better. Cast Iron not so much.
If you look some air cooled motors they have lots of evenly spaced fins up and down the cylinder, they normally get larger the closer you get to the head, where the heat is generated. The point is you have to remove X amount of heat to keep everything working within the design limits.
In the case of these compressors, the cast iron first stage doesn't generate all that much heat, but we know from thermal dynamics that when you compress a gas it gets hot, once it's transferred to the second stage it is already hot and get hotter being compressed again. So the second stage is Aluminum and water cooled. The second stage heat is transferred to the aluminum cylinder and the water picks up that heat and removes it.
That's the 10,000 foot view.
Smitty
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