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Water cooling
Water cooling
is a method of
heat
removal from components and industrial equipment. As opposed to
air cooling
,
water
is used as the heat conductor. Water cooling is commonly used for cooling
automobile
internal combustion engines
and large industrial facilities such as
steam electric power plants
,
hydroelectric
generator
s,
petroleum refineries
and
chemical plants
. Other uses include cooling the barrels of
machine guns
, cooling of
lubricant
oil in
pumps
; for cooling purposes in
heat exchangers
; cooling products from tanks or columns, and recently, cooling of various major components inside high-end
personal computers
. The main mechanism for water cooling is
convective heat transfer
.
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