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  1. What is the heat source for the oil jackets? Electric? Thanks.
  2. Thanks for all the replies. I would be irrigating out of that well anyways but I think a closed loop is a safer way to go. We are high desert so it gets 20 below in the winter and over 100 in the summer but our ground temp is fairly constant because we have cool nights in summer. Pipe will all be re purposed from water trough projects.
  3. I even considered running cold water from my well into my cooling systems, out into a pipe system to get some cooling and then out to the field behind the distillery for irrigating. That way cooling wouldn't be as much an issue other than getting the warm water to a temp that's not lethal to plants.
  4. We are ranchers so I do have the backhoe and access to excavators and I like to run them and there is lots of land to bury pipe. I suspected that i might still need a reservoir tank but do you still think i would need a glycooler if there was sufficient surface area to do the cooling underground. I'm not opposed to having one i'm just curious because i don't have much knowledge on that end of things but i have helped build some shop/home systems that both heated and cooled by buried pipe and ground temperature. I would be interested in the information on the glycooler though and appreciate the input.
  5. Tanks would be interesting. I got the idea from some of the ground source heating systems for floor heat. I am hoping to have it plumbed into and underground grid of pipe outside for maximum surface contact to cool faster. I am also going to try to have and option to shoot it through my floor heating system so i dont waste the heat in the winter. I am just wondering about pump/pressure issues that i might run into with having to push water through all that pipe rather than just in and out of a tank with a chiller. I'm pretty sure it will be withing most standard pressure ratings and not high pressure or anything.
  6. We are planning for our ranches distillery build in the spring and I am looking into a system of buried pex or poly pipe as a means of cooling our condenser water. Space is not an issue, cost may be depending on length of pipe needed. Has anyone gone this route or is a tank and chiller a cheaper/ more efficient option? Thanks.
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