The TEPRO heat transfer fluid line, manufactured by STRON, includes a wide range of ready-to-use heat transfer fluids, as well as heat transfer fluid concentrates.
What we mean by heat transfer fluid concentrate, read in the article “What is a concentrate?”
It is clear that a ready-made heat transfer fluid is a product that does not require any additional processing, just buy and pour into the circuit.
In our expert opinion, a ready-made heat transfer fluid has a number of advantages over a concentrate. Some of these advantages are obvious to the consumer, some are not. Let’s look at them.
So, ADVANTAGES OF A READY-MADE HEAT TRANSFER
1) ABSENCE OF ADDITIONAL OPERATIONS, CONVENIENCE OF USE
The most obvious advantage and often the most significant.
If you purchased a concentrate, before pouring it into the circuit, you will have to go through a number of additional operations:
- Dilution with water, necessarily prepared, ideally distilled. Do you have it at hand? Wouldn't it turn out that in the absence of prepared water, the concentrate will be diluted, for example, with water from a well, while adding a bunch of impurities?
- You need to have a container for diluting the entire volume of the coolant. Is there such a container?
- You need to monitor the correctness of the obtained concentration. How will you do this? "By eye" is not an option.
No additional operations occur with a ready-made coolant.
2) MANUFACTURER'S GUARANTEES
There is a quality guarantee for both the finished coolant and the coolant concentrate. However, in the event of your incorrect actions ( which ones - see the previous paragraph ), this guarantee ceases to apply. Since the number of operations with the concentrate is much greater than with a ready-made coolant, the probability of losing the guarantee is significantly higher than in the case of a ready-made coolant.
In other words, there are many opportunities to lose the quality of the coolant by diluting it from the concentrate.
3) DILUTION LIMITATIONS OF THE CONCENTRATE
The most hidden disadvantage of the concentrate. The fact is that in addition to not freezing to a certain temperature, the coolant must not destroy the circuit by corrosive effects. This is prevented by corrosion inhibitors - a very important component of a high-quality coolant. There must be a certain amount of corrosion inhibitors in the coolant to create proper anti-corrosion protection.
Keep in mind that when diluting the concentrate with water, not only glycol is diluted, corrosion inhibitors are also diluted. The more you dilute the concentrate, the higher the crystallization temperature of the resulting coolant and the fewer corrosion inhibitors it contains. If the crystallization temperature is somehow controlled, then they don’t think about the content of inhibitors. Well, they are in the concentrate, right? Well, then OK. And often it is not OK, but significantly less than the norm. It will be enough for a while, but a coolant with a full composition could work much longer.
Now about the ADVANTAGES OF CONCENTRATE
In fact, we can highlight only one advantage - reducing the volume for transportation.
Is this saving really advisable, given the volume of delivery and the disadvantages listed above?
With large volumes - possible. In other cases - unlikely.
