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Copper tubing and sea water
I am thinking of using plain old copper tubing (the type you get from
Home Depot) to cool the winding section of a a generator by wrapping a few turns of the copper tubing around the casing and then pumping sea water directly around the tubing. Can anyone advise whether this is going to work? Obviously I don't mind if it gets an ugly blue colour inside the tubing however I don't want to be loosing cooling efficiency with time, or worse have the tubing leak. The reason I don't want to use cuprous nickel is that it is much less malleable than standard copper tubing and I would not be able to simply wrap it around the casing. All ideas and comments appreciated. Ian |