air chilling experiment

so i got a call from my friend Fernando saying "I've got this radical idea. come over and bring a camera".
so i did.
Fernando's fridge died, and being the engineer that he is, he took it apart. and out came the refrigerator radiator.
now here's the radical idea: chilling wort using air!
we started out with 10L of 100C water. the water was then pumped from the kettle and through the refrigerator radiator and back into the kettle. all the while a fan was blowing air onto the radiator. the ambient temp was around 17C and the pot was uncovered.
we cooled from 100C to 24C in 36 minutes.
a 23L batch of wort would take around 80 minutes to chill without waisting any water at all!

now, i am personally a no-chiller, but this idea is still very cool

here are some pics:

there are three pipes: kettle out to pump in. pump out to radiator in. radiator out back to kettle.

the unused connections at the bottom of the system are for the counter flow chiller hidden in the base of the set up.

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So, the best thing would be to combine this with the counterflow or immersion chiller?

Hell, just get some radiator fluid and setup a closed loop between the immersion chiller and the radiator...

heheh...

Hmmm... sounds like PC based liquid coolers

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