Stay Cool Super Coolant: not just for automotive engines

14th November 2003

By: Steven Chiaberta

  

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Stay Cool super coolant is designed to provide improved metal wetting and excellent corrosion inhibition to a vast array of engines.

Over and above its use as a wetting agent for automotive cooling systems, where it is used in radiators to reduce temperatures by up to 15 ˚C, the product has general-purpose and high-performance applications that make it ideal for use in industry, mining equipment, closed circuits, and in other machinery that requires a liquid coolant to lower the high temperatures caused by sustained use.

However, Stay Cool is more than a coolant. It also provides the proper corrosion inhibition for all cooling system metals, including aluminium, cast iron, steel, copper, brass, and lead.

It offers rust and corrosion protection in high-speed and low-speed engines, which means that anything from drilling equipment and liquid-cooled industrial engines, to high-speed stationary engines and periodically-operated machines will benefit from its use.

Furthermore, any engine that requires the cooling of cylinder heads, which obviously includes many industrial machines, can use the super coolant that reduces temperatures in cooling systems up to 200% faster than a 50% glycol-based solution.

Stay Cool reduces rust, corrosion and electrolysis of all metals in a cooling system.

It provides long-term protection, and cleans and lubricates water pump seals in engines that have those parts. While it reduces cavitation corrosion, the product also softens hard water and reduces scale in a cooling system.

One 500 ml bottle of Stay Cool treats 12 litres of water, or 50% ethylene or propylene glycol solution, while its antiscaling ingredients even allow its use with ordinary tap water.

So how does it work?
Stay Cool works by doubling the wetting ability of water, which substantially improves the heat transfer of an engines’ cooling system.

While water has excellent heat-transfer properties in its liquid state, it has very high surface tension that makes it difficult to release water vapour from a metal surface. Stay Cool reduces the surface tension of water by a factor of two, which means that much smaller vapour bubbles will be formed on the metal surface, allowing more heat transfer to take place.

Many modern engines in the automotive industry and in a host of other sectors use aluminium for heads, radiators, water-pump housings, and nearly all hose fittings. These engines require significantly greater corrosion protection than their cast-iron counterparts.

Also, because it is an electro-active metal, aluminium requires an impenetrable corrosion inhibitor film to prevent rapid corrosion.

Stay Cool provides excellent protection from cavitation erosion and provides effective film formulation and smaller water vapour formation, which cools and protects aluminium engines and other engines that require a liquid coolant.

Thus, with its myriad of uses, Stay Cool really is far more than just a wetting agent for automotive cooling systems.

The product is available in 500 ml, 5 l and 220 l containers.

Edited by Steven Chiaberta

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