Ask An Expert Technician:. One Part, Many Names The truth of the matter is that there are multiple names for the same part. Intercooler vs.
Aftercooler vs. Charge Air Cooler As mentioned earlier, there are some slight differences between the terms in various applications. The Many Names of a Charge Air Cooler In the commercial vehicle industry, charge air cooler, diesel intercooler, aftercooler, and turbo cooler all refer to the same part. Back to the blog. What Our Customers Are Saying. The exact right part, shipped today. We offer a large selection of charge air cooler and radiator solutions to meet your performance and durability needs.
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Although aftercooler and intercooler may be used to refer to the same device and function in the same manner, the circumstance in which they are used provides very subtle differences. While an aftercooler is a heat exchanger that operates by cooling the air emerging from a compression unit, an intercooler is a device attached to an air compressor that cools the air before engine intake. By design, both intercoolers and aftercoolers will cause the cooling of compressed air by removing the heat generated during the compression of air.
An effect of this heat exchange is the condensation of water vapor suspended within the air which can be collected allowing dry air to enter supplied processes. The elimination of water will protect moisture sensitive components and prevent equipment damage that might have arisen from moisture enabled corrosion. As earlier stated, both aftercoolers and intercoolers function similarly and may be used interchangeably.
Depending on the target application, either cooling device can be used to remove heat from an industrial process. For applications where cooled intake air is critical to engine function, the use of an intercooler is advised. At NiGen we prioritize the delivery of the best quality industrial air compressors to all our clients. As part of the various compressed air solutions we offer, we also provide air compressor aftercoolers and installation to ensure your compressed air systems meet international standards.
Contact the NiGen team today for a quote or to learn more about how we can help with your industrial air needs. Differences between Aftercooler vs. Intercooler Many industrial processes require compressed air. Intercooler vs. Prev of 4 2 3 4 Next. Mr Whippy Original Poster 24, posts months. Are they about on par volume for volume, or is a chargecooler more efficient so can be much smaller for the same cooling capability vs an intercooler air-air? Do they have any downsides like pressure drop gradients being higher because of their cross-sections, or is it simply a superior yet slightly more costly design?
Chargecooler itself is always more efficient that an intercooler, BUT - you need to cool the water back down - via another radiator - so you end up with two sets of inefficiencies; one for the CC one for the Rad. So your overall efficiency will be at BEST the same as an intercooler, and probably likely to be less. Intercooler should be better that, but few people actually bother to measure the temperatures and prove that something works or not.
Other reasons to select chargcooling are: 1 Packaging and flexibility - no big holes to cut etc. You can read about my work on the subject here www. I would look at Spearco coolers in the states as the yanks have more experience and data, I would suggest you avoid a popular manufacturer in the UK, as they seem to end up on ebay all to often - I think because they are poorly designed and implemented.
Take a look at this site www. He has lots of data and logs, prooving his designs work. It may help if I describe the possible use of the coolers. Basically I've sold my Gti6 and picked up an identical spec car just with the derv Hdi unit. I planned on having it "breathed on" because 90bhp from bhp is a big drop, and even the old Tdi 's could be tweaked up mainly because they had an intercooler! By no means strained but the figures would be bhp and lbft with a simple intercooler setup from almost exactly the same engine on the which uses an intercooler!
In that form it's more efficient because of the cooler, so mpg doesn't suffer hugely, and I expect the lower intake temps aid longevity of certain components. I keep seeing front mounted conversions for silly money, and shiny hosing everywhere, and silly slimline fans and brackets etc, but there must be something simpler.
Chargecooling seems a good idea for an enclosed engine bay, and the imagery in that 1st link is really inspiring! Rather than having metre's literally of large diameter piping, I could almost utilise the existing pipework from turbo to intake manifold and have a cooler and a U-bend.
Then just route smaller piping effectively and cheaply to the front air-dam. It'd be a load easier for me to do DIY, nothing OEM would really need moving or altering, and it'd probably be at least as efficient. I'm not after mega power. There are 2 intercoolers ive found that seem the most suited that are about 80 and respectively.
The first is a slimline that is a conventional front mount set-up with throttle body on the passenger side and the second is a twin-pass for a drivers side TB like the ABF. These are both rated to hp and anymore than that seems to take up too much room blocking air to the rad. It would probably require severe re-location or a charge cooler over that or a series of specialy fabbed ducting.
The twin-pass also keeps the piping fairly short down one side but you may have to do a bit of thinking on squeezing the intake down that side too if your using the mk1's lhd servo set-up. Ducting an intercooler can help with cooling, just make sure its completely stuck to the cooler and gap free. Not using ducting or gaps means the air bounces off and goes off to the side unlike fully stuck which has no-where to go but through the intercooler. Using the twin-pass route i've found the MR2 radiator is a wide, yet slim design 12" high and 2" wide that may be a suitable upgrade trial tested the rad but not the combo.
I'd also seriously consider moving the battery to the boot too to free up some room for catch tanks and the like and make things easier. GolfTurboInnovation , Mar 4, Matt82 , Mar 5, Thanks guys for all your help. Sounds like the charge coolers do take a lot of space in the engine bay and id rather not put battery in boot if i can help it. Is there any more information on the slimline intercooler. Pictures or information on were to get a decent one? Cheers again guys Taz. Tarnbir , Mar 5, This is who supplies me with coolers and the link to the slimline one.
There are two twin pass ones rated at hp if u go that route so check which size u buy. GolfTurboInnovation , Mar 5, Heat exchange is a function of the temperature difference.. Just looked at peltier coolers.
Seem to be used for CPU cooling. How could it be used for cooling water?
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