How to kill bacterial growth in water cooling systmes!!!

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Ethylene glycol is quite deadly to living organisms, and can seep through the micropores in your tubing. I highly recommend you don't use it. Google it for a couple of minutes and I'm sure you're bound to find many, many stories of "My pet ate my water cooling system coolant and died!"
 
ProClin 150! It's used as an anti-microbial in lab diagnostic equipment so it has to be good. You'll need a scientist buddy to buy it though.
 
This occurs because all living things in this world emit photons as a natural function or bioluminescence , although we cannot "see" the these photons with human eye perception.
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That's just bullshit.
 
well, that's a supposition, then if i were you i would test first before assuming it would indeed block water flow and reduce performance.
But like i said earlier, you can try chlorine, oxygenated water or other swimming pool product. I think this is the better example of still, clean, micro organisms-free water. The products used to keep that water clean should work without damaging your system.
 
Not really. In our pool, even if we shock (add liquid chlorine) the water at the beginning of the season, we can still get algae. That's why there's a chemical called algaecide, its purpose being to kill algae. Chlorine isn't nearly as effective at killing algae as some think it is...but a good suggestion nontheless :wink:.
 
Yep ethylene glycol is toxic....

Yes it will be absorbed by tubes.... it is a form of ethanol.

Yep cats, and dogs love the drink the stuff.... (its sweet in taste and smells nice)....

Ethylene glycol is only toxic when ingested.... in a sufficient quantity....

When you use it in your cooling set up its diluted.....We usually add around 10% or less.... and at this concentration it WILL NOT inhibit growth.
In FACT you are just adding a nice carbon and nitrogen source ie food for the bugs to grow on! (We usually add ethylene glycol to lube the pump and increase the pH above neutral). Adding too much ethylene glycol will dull the preformance of your cooling system because the ethylene glycol does not absorb and transfer heat as well as pure water, it will also make the water more viscous.

The reason why your pool eventually grows algae at the "end" of the season is because the chlorine evaporates faster than water thus the conc of chlorine at the "end" of the season will be far less than at the start.... Once the conc of the chlorine drops the more resistant algae can start to grow....

I would not add chlorine to my system because this will promote corrosion chlorine will give positive charged molecules a "potential".

I would NOT add "oxygenated" water this would promote growth 'most' bacteria need oxygen to grow (All Algae NEED oxygen to grow).... Most bacteria will NOT grow without oxygen.

Thre are some bacteria that can grow with or without oxygen (facultative aerobes) they will grow faster when they have oxygen at their disposal.
 
antifreeze is sweet in taste
but if you get a good dose <i have>
it is the nastiest tasting stuff there is
i am an auto tech and was siphoning
some out of a 50 gal barrel to put
in a car and got a mouthful
yyyuuuukkk!!!
the burn and taste lasted for most of that day
 
I hear that there are some desperate people that will drink anti freeze to get their "fix".

I hear its just like drinking ethanol....

Did you have to go see a doc after drinking some anti freeze???

Did he prescribe you a bottle of vodka???
 
I used car coolant, the green stuff, at a mix of 50/50 (I know that's too high, but I wanted slower water flow to get the system dead silent)
It acts as a lubricant btw
 
"Ethylene glycol doses as small as 30 milliliters (2 tablespoons) can be lethal to adults."

"Symptoms of ethylene glycol poisoning follow a three-step progression. Initially, victims may appear to be intoxicated, exhibiting symptoms such as dizziness, slurred speech, and confusion. Over time, the body metabolizes ethylene glycol into another toxin, oxalic acid. Buildup of this substance results in irregularities in the victim's heartbeat and breathing. In the final stage, the victim suffers kidney failure"

ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene_glycol
 
Whoa 50/50 man thats high conc..... does do you find any prefromance differnece? Is it worse or better???
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Most likely worse, as I said it was just to make sure everything ran extra silent.
It does become a lot less thick when it gets warm.

Although the temps didn't change noticeably, my 6600GT at the time still held 40 or so.
 
Yep 2 table spoons can kill "that" btw is the lowest recorded LD (lethal dose) for a human. Usually it takes much more, and it usually takes quite some time for the body to convert the ethylene glycol..... so in the meen time if you do ingest some by mistake vodka is your best bet..... The vodka acts as a competitive enzyme inhibition assay!

the wikpedia also tells us that Australian wine makers added ethylene glycol to their wines! hahahaha (Because ethylene glycol is sweet) thus the wine could be passed as "table wine".

Its not like if you get some on your fingers you will die.....
 
vodka huh?

Well, in the interest of safety I'll begin ingesting some vodka now.

and no one ever believed me when I said I drank vodka for medicinal purposes...
 
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