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Smackre
Say you have 120 gallons of coolant. Oil coolant. That is raising 16 degrees per hour. But you wanted it to stay below 70 degree's always. How would you go about keeping it cool. From my calulations you need some place around 14000BTU to cool the oil off.....
I think you will find that you have to go for some form of refrigerated chiller; if you want to stay below 70 degrees you need either air or water several degrees below this. Using something like an automobile radiator would need air at around 55 degrees maximum to get the oil below 70. Using a liquid to liquid counter current heat exchanger you may get away with a difference of only 5 degrees lower but it depends on how much area there is in the heat exchanger and the flow of the cooling liquid.
How cold is the water supply in your area? The simplest solution would be a water cooled heat exchanger just using the water supply if it is cold enough and you are not paying much for the water. However, this is not likely to work in the summer.
An open mind is a virtue...so long as all the common sense has not leaked out.