| RE:Reverse-osmosis purified water in cooling system? |
Subject: RE:Reverse-osmosis purified water in cooling system? by Slrvette on 2008/2/13 3:45:56 Since i am a "water guy" I'm gonna throw my 2 cents in here and give you my opinion. I install and sell water systems for hemodialysis use in the Northeast and am quite familiar with RO and DI. To give you and idea of how dialysis works once you remove all the "impurities" out of the water it then acts as a magnet sort of speak. When passed through a dialyzer , blood is passing through the other side. The only thing seperating the two is a membrane that has tiny pores that only bacteria can pass through. Blood cells are two large. Anyways since pure water acts as a magnet it pulls the bacteria from a persons blood through a membrane. Since thats out of the way.... Would I use RO or DI in the coolant system? NO WAY... why? whats your block and internals made out of? Metal... metal will leach into the water because the water is "pure".... in turn it will create havic and damage to your engine. All metals will leach into the water guranteed! RO water is not as pure as DI.. RO will remove up to 99% of all impurities while DI water is "perfect" water at 18 meg. For this reason is why I don't use car washes.... they use either RO or DI and with enough washs will eventually ruin the paint... believe it or not. Best thing to use is soften water with a carbon filter pre... www.qualitywatersolutions.com sorry had to do it for an explantion of Reverse Osmosis you can go here http://e-watersystems.com/faq.htm never thought I could plug my ownsite on a corvette forum! |
