Spin-and-Chill Cooling Test for Soft Drinks

The Spin-and-Chill experiment tests how fast a soft drink cools when a can or bottle is spun at high speed. It uses heat transfer and fluid flow ideas to study why rotation can chill a beverage from room temperature to 38 °F in as little as 2 min.

The setup can cool much faster than a refrigerato...

Spin-and-chills are household examples of heat transfer technology. They can be analyzed to understand engineering processes that are widely studied and applied in industry. Spin-and-chills cool soft drinks much faster than refrigerators or ice chests. They operate by rotating soda cans within a reservoir of ice at speeds of hundreds of revoluti...