Can An Efficient Heat Pump Be Made From A Beer Cooler?
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 at
3:59 pm
I have a beercooler, and is basically a refrigeration unit designed to extract heat from an input and outlet pipe, and transfer this to a neutral liquid, which is pumped around another looped radiator -with a fan unit on it. Thus – the heat is removed from the beer, and ouputed into the room.
Any suggestions for aplication, siting etc would be useful.
Maybe radiators painted black outdors, and a small solar fountain pump to circulate the water ?
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blessings!I come from a drag racing family…and all I can say is -make sure your emissions from your cooler are safe.sounds like your on your way to a really good idea.by no means am I a scientist ,but I do like to change stuff into other things.there’s a few rules I go by.1.make sure that its your stuff your changing.2.make sure that every thing that you do is safe enough to have any living thing around it,and it doesn’t cause harm,just happiness.always remember there’s something you don’t know about what your doing,look out for those armadillos in the road.3.make the best new invention of the day with blessings from the Gods.I just saw a show called the” junk-brothers”they create things an leave them back where they found them redesigned an wonderful.I really loved the washing machine in too a wonderful BBQ….check them out! well gotta go…good luck on your new adventure and be safe!blessed be!
I think anyone capable of answering this would already have a clue about how a beer cooler works (just thought I’d point that out).
Have you thought about trying to use the condenser (what you call a looped radiator) as a heat exchanger? You could exchange the heat some how to heating system, though you will still need some element to supplement this. A condensers purpose is not just to dump heat, it dumps heat so that the refrigerant can become a liquid mass at temperatures above its boiling point, dump it to quick and you risk flooding the condenser and maybe damage your compressor, lose it to slow and vapour goes to the metering device and the system will fail.
Remember though, if make the condenser lose heat quicker or slower that will effect the efficiency of the cooler system or make it not work at all.
Good luck.
I don’t see why it can’t be used in that fashion. My sister has a heat pump and the external unit is cool. If you can use that to cool your beer that would make an excellent sales pitch.
lol Great idea! If you can dream it, you can create it!