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Friday 27 February 2015

What are the benefits for your business to invest in manufactured oil coolers?

It can be assumed that most people do not understand a great deal about specially designed oil coolers, which perhaps tells you why many of the businesses are reluctant to fully embrace the technology.

This can lead to greater problems and cost you money as over time the incorrect way of cooling large machinery can equate to serious damage, which can cost a company a lot of money to fix.
Therefore if your firm does not use oil coolers which are manufactured then here are things you may like to take into consideration.



1) For starters, if your firm uses transformers then you will understand that if it is too hot a lot of damage can be done. If the winding hot spot temperature of your transformer reaches critical levels, the transformer can prematurely fail because of the excessive heat. Remember that the installation of a cooling system means the load capacity of a transformer can improve its ability by demonstrating growth to release the heat which is created by the heat.

2) It is always useful to have background information of what is on offer regarding systems. There are two basic designs for oil coolers, the tube-and-fin style coolers and the stacked plate coolers:

- With tube-and-fin style coolers, heat produced by the engine is extracted through the tubes and carried to the fins, where it will be absorbed by the air flowing from the cooler. However, there can be a high amount of random results which does give a small improvement regarding the overall efficiency relating to the cooler.

- However, the stacked plate cooler disperses heat by letting oil flow into different passages inside the stacked plates. Stacked style coolers are made to cool the oil through allowing air to flow, however due to the elements being stacked so close they inhibit air flow in the cooler.

However, it all depends on your personal circumstances as to which option is the right one for your specific machinery.

3) If your car has an oil immersed transformer then you have two major options. These are:
- Oil immersed natural cooling. This system keeps the core and windings submerged in oil and the transformer is cooled down by the natural circulation of this oil. Additional cooling can be provided by radiators, which increases the surface area over which a large transformer can dissipate heat.

- Oil immersed water cooling. With these systems the transformer is cooled by an internal coil which allows water to flow through. However, this method is only feasible if you have an easily accessible water source, which is usually not the case, which explains the increasing shift towards the natural cooling method.

4) If you do purchase an oil cooler then it is important that you oil the bearings regularly, as oiling and inspecting your cooler bearings can save you a lot of money and time. This should really be done at least once a year for casual use, or many times a year for more regular use.

Hopefully, the tips in this article should help you to ensure that your machinery should be operational for a much greater length of time and your company will save a great deal of money.

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