Water cooling air eliminators

[Costas Athan]

Is it easy to give links to the parts you used? I can't find them on Koolance's website...

 

[Aikouka]

Vapor comes from water. Water evaporates more rapidly as its temperature rises and when the temperature reaches its boiling point vapors leave violently the body of the water.

Water cooling loops do not (or rather... should not) get that hot. In my experience, I've noticed that most acrylic containers (i.e. your reservoir) only support water up to about 50C, so you'd run into issues long before vapor becomes a problem. This is really a non-issue.

 

[Costas Athan]

Water cooling loops do not (or rather... should not) get that hot. In my experience, I've noticed that most acrylic containers (i.e. your reservoir) only support water up to about 50C, so you'd run into issues long before vapor becomes a problem. This is really a non-issue.

Vapor builds even at room temperature, but in a slow rate. So yes, probably it won't be an issue, at least not a serious one, for PC water cooling with these "low" temperatures.

 

[jaedaliu]

Vapor builds even at room temperature, but in a slow rate. So yes, probably it won't be an issue, at least not a serious one, for PC water cooling with these "low" temperatures.

vapor isn't going to keep going up. The amount of air in your loop is fairly fixed. Some water molecules will evaporate (vaporize) and then those water molecules will hang out in the fixed amount of air in your closed loop. Eventually, more water molecules will evaporate. But, they can't enter the small amount of fixed air because the gaps are filled by the vaporized water already there! (at fixed pressure, that is. You aren't going to be running increasing PSI in your closed loop) So when the air in your loop is saturated with water vapor, the amount of vapor in your loop will not increase, as evaporating water replaces the water vapor already in the loop, with the displaced water vapor becoming liquid again.

 

[Costas Athan]

vapor isn't going to keep going up. The amount of air in your loop is fairly fixed. Some water molecules will evaporate (vaporize) and then those water molecules will hang out in the fixed amount of air in your closed loop. Eventually, more water molecules will evaporate. But, they can't enter the small amount of fixed air because the gaps are filled by the vaporized water already there! (at fixed pressure, that is. You aren't going to be running increasing PSI in your closed loop) So when the air in your loop is saturated with water vapor, the amount of vapor in your loop will not increase, as evaporating water replaces the water vapor already in the loop, with the displaced water vapor becoming liquid again.

Of course there is a point of saturation. But the problem occurs when bubbles build in the water which has as a result the decrease of thermal conductivity that means decreased performance of the water cooling system.

 

[Costas Athan]

is cheaper... does the exact same function as u are wishing for... and on top looks BLING!

I think I figured it out. There isn't such a thing as a vortex breaker from Koolance. You use two Pump Reservoir Bases connected with two Reservoir Bodies of different length, right?

By the way, are the dual pumps really necessary? Isn't a strong pump like the MCP655 which moves 1200 Liters of water per Hour (~317 Gallons per Hour) sufficient?

And a last question: What's the thing plugged in the middle of your configuration? A temperature sensor?

 

[aigomorla]

thats the anticyclone / vortex i was telling u about.

this is version 2 they changed.

is dual pumps needed?
i have 6 pumps in my system... 3 loops redundant pump on each loop.
I have too much in core hardware needed to be protected... hence why i go for redundancy.

having 3 loops and 6 pumps means my system can take a beating in the most extreme conditions b4 it has to be shutdown.
Also when i was doing all my testing... i was doing it on the tip of efficiency in flow.
Sometimes u need that second pump to get the most out of efficiency. (well not anymore... but back in the days with injectors you did.)

 

[Costas Athan]

OK. That's the vortex breaker, but what's the role of the second part of the reservoir?

Edit: Which part do you use to connect the bodies? It's not the "Reservoir Coupler with Fitting Sockets", because yours is closed.