Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-17 Thread Bob Cook
why NASA uses Pu-238 with a thermoelectric couple for space probes IMHO. Bob - Original Message - From: Eric Walker To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:32 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Robert Lynn
If the LENR reaction suffers from thermal runaway then the best means for cooling is a coolant fluid slightly below the target temperature. Eg 1180°C coolant and 1200°C running temp so raising temp to 1240°C would then triple cooling rate, so 'clamping' the temperature. A lithium heat pipe would

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread David Roberson
: Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Oct 16, 2014 1:32 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the large tubes

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Higgins
I am pretty sure these endcaps are just mechanical supports for the hot tube in the middle. They are large alumina outer rings that have been filled with a cast-able refractory insulation such as a Vitcast 1200 INS or Vitcast 1400 INS-H. They insulate the mounting apparatus from the hot

RE: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
16 octobre 2014 17:05 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo I am pretty sure these endcaps are just mechanical supports for the hot tube in the middle. They are large alumina outer rings that have been filled

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Higgins
I believe the ends are completely sealed with a compound like the Vitcast 1400 INS-H. I also think the space between the inner and radiating tube is probably filled with this same compound. You don't want air flowing in there in case there are cracks in the alumina adhesive put over the heater

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Cook
- Original Message - From: Arnaud Kodeck To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 8:10 AM Subject: RE: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo Bob, Just a thought. I'm not an expert of magnetic confinement

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread ChemE Stewart
:10 AM *Subject:* RE: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo Bob, Just a thought. I’m not an expert of magnetic confinement of plasma. But, the « encaps » might contain a proper wires configuration to close the rotating magnetic field formed

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Higgins
arnaud.kod...@lakoco.be *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Thursday, October 16, 2014 8:10 AM *Subject:* RE: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo Bob, Just a thought. I’m not an expert of magnetic confinement of plasma. But, the « encaps » might contain

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread ChemE Stewart
-- *From:* Bob Higgins [mailto:rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com] *Sent:* jeudi 16 octobre 2014 17:05 *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo I am pretty sure these endcaps are just mechanical supports for the hot tube

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Axil Axil
16, 2014 8:10 AM *Subject:* RE: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo Bob, Just a thought. I’m not an expert of magnetic confinement of plasma. But, the « encaps » might contain a proper wires configuration to close the rotating magnetic field

RE: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
[mailto:rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com] Sent: jeudi 16 octobre 2014 19:00 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo Seems to me that at the temperatures we are talking about (1000C) that bulk magnetic effects are probably out

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Higgins
2014 19:00 *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo Seems to me that at the temperatures we are talking about (1000C) that bulk magnetic effects are probably out of the question. A plasma of Li would

RE: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
2014 22:31 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo I think we are describing pretty much the same thing. Only I don't believe there is anything but refractory castable insulation in the large diameter support cylinders

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Higgins
*To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo I think we are describing pretty much the same thing. Only I don't believe there is anything but refractory castable insulation in the large diameter support cylinders

RE: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
that it was an oscillating phenomenon inside the eCat. _ From: Bob Higgins [mailto:rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com] Sent: jeudi 16 octobre 2014 22:51 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo I don't think

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Alain Sepeda
. -- *From:* Bob Higgins [mailto:rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com] *Sent:* jeudi 16 octobre 2014 22:51 *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo I don't think there was anything this fancy in Rossi's original eCats. He had

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: The following is a bit speculative, but perhaps someone can correct any misstatements I make -- if there is a magnetic field being created by the cables coiling around the tube [1], I believe the field would point along the axis of the tube, creating a theta pinch, even if only

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Robert Lynn
Highly doubtful. Above curie temperture of Nickel so no ferromagnetism, and powder too microscopic hot resistivity too high, and AC frequency, current and number of windings too low for strong magnetic fields or significant eddy currents to form and give push via lenzs law. On 15 October 2014

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com wrote: Highly doubtful. Above curie temperture of Nickel so no ferromagnetism, and powder too microscopic hot resistivity too high I assume, then, that magnetic domains and the curie temperature are not relevant.

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Bob Higgins
I just suggested the following as the construction of the latest hotCat to MFMP: Here is a section drawing of the end of the new hotCat as I see it ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5Pc25a4cOM2WXBNRjE2bDVVT1U/view?usp=sharing ). I believe IH would have used as many off-the-shelf components as

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Alain Sepeda
One detail is how does the e-cat work when in after-death mode (SSM). One mystery for me is the powder not to melt, hotter and the around... I feel E-cat are very well engineered... we can be surpised like physicists were by felischmanpons calorimeter... 2014-10-15 18:24 GMT+02:00 Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Alan Fletcher
@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 9:24:07 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo I just suggested the following as the construction of the latest hotCat to MFMP: Here is a section drawing of the end of the new hotCat as I

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Bob Higgins
...@gmail.com *To: *vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent: *Wednesday, October 15, 2014 9:24:07 AM *Subject: *Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo I just suggested the following as the construction of the latest hotCat to MFMP: Here is a section drawing

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
You Alan have done an amazing job sleuthing out the details of this thing. I suppose you are right, although I cannot tell. If you are right it is a great job and if you are wrong you have a vivid imagination! - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread ChemE Stewart
Me too, good job. Tube in a tube reminds of the model rockets I used to build. Fin supports between tubes might explain the wider dark band seen as a spiral?. Do you think a lot of the heat might be discharged in a space between tubes and out the ends? Or are the ends completely sealed? On

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Bob Higgins
I believe the ends, between the central tube and the outer 2 cm hot tube, are filled in with a refractory cement. In fact, that whole space, and maybe not the ends could be filled in to help improve the thermal conductivity. Most importantly it should keep out the air that could oxidize the

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Alan Fletcher
From: ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 11:08:42 AM Me too, good job. Tube in a tube reminds of the model rockets I used to build. Fin supports between tubes might explain the wider dark band seen as a spiral?. Do you think a lot of the heat might be

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread John Page
These might be pretty similar to Rossi's setup. (Google Superthal smu) Superthal heating modules Prefabricated heating modules consisting of vacuum-formed ceramic fibre with an integral Kanthal Super molybdenum-disilicide (MoSi2) heating element for up to 1750°C (3180°F) element temperature.

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Robert Lynn
such units are not made as 3 phase helically wound assemblies, MoSi2 is non-ductile/brittle and very difficult to make and even worse to bond to, and there is still the unanswered problem of how do you bond inconel wire that can survive only to 1350°C to an insulated heating element that is

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: I assume, then, that magnetic domains and the curie temperature are not relevant. I'm thinking more along the lines of metal vapor and partially ionized nickel and iron atoms and particles, which will carry some amount of electric charge. Note that as the temperature rises, the

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the large tubes on the end to be thermally insulating supports for the hot central 2 cm tube. A question that came to me was whether the alumina endcaps could be replaced with metal endcaps of a suitable

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-14 Thread Bob Higgins
Robert, I think a lot of your observations are spot on. I would like to continue discussion of the likely construction of the latest IH hotCat. You are likely correct that the corrosion of liquid and vapor phase lithium would be terrible for use of a metal reactor vessel. That is probably why

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-14 Thread ChemE Stewart
I agree the coil is imbedded within the alumina shell Maybe the end caps are heat sinks? I still think the unit works off induction from the coil On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: Robert, I think a lot of your observations are spot on. I would

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-14 Thread Axil Axil
See my thread: Super​-fluidic heat flow On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: Robert, I think a lot of your observations are spot on. I would like to continue discussion of the likely construction of the latest IH hotCat. You are likely correct that

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-14 Thread Axil Axil
The caps must be resistant to hydrogen exfiltration, i.e. not sintered. Is there some mention in the test report that says that the outer alumina tube is hydrogen proof? Does it say that the outer tube is sintered alumina? On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-14 Thread David Roberson
paths. Dave -Original Message- From: Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, Oct 14, 2014 11:15 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo Robert, I think a lot of your observations

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-14 Thread H Veeder
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: Another point has to do with how the heat is conveyed from a LENR reaction. Since the LENR reaction is likely a nano-scale event, heat must be conveyed from the reaction in a way that doesn't make the NAE the

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-14 Thread H Veeder
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:21 PM, H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: Can we refocus this thread into discussion about the construction of the latest reactor? For example: - Why do we think the end

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-14 Thread Bob Higgins
In the steady state, I don't think the reaction powder will be any cooler than the vessel. If the photons are absorbed in the vessel and the vessel heats, the surrounding vessel will radiate, conduct, and convect heat back to the powder which will drive it to be the same temperature as the

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-14 Thread Axil Axil
This theory is based on the fact that heat is assumed to come from the nickel particles. I believe that heat comes from the alumina and the Ni particles provide field emitters to cause fusion at a distance far from the nickel particles. The Ni particles might be located in the coolest part of the

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-14 Thread Terry Blanton
Use of 3 ph. power is not really a mystery. Most industrial equipment is 3 ph. and each leg must be kept in balance with the others. This is easiest with 3 ph. delta configs.

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-14 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: Why do we think the 3-phase drive is used? I'm guessing this has to do with an induction mode, perhaps creating a condition not unlike a microwave inside the E-Cat, with electric arcing between the various iron and

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-14 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: Why do we think the end caps are so big? Are they part of a lower temperature insulated mounting system? The following is a bit speculative, but perhaps someone can correct any misstatements I make -- if there is a

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-13 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com wrote: ... eg if Ø20mm outer wall is at 1200°C (approx max given revised COP of around 2 from temp reading that is obviously in error due to non-melting of inconel, though could be significantly lower) I've taken a

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-13 Thread Axil Axil
- From: Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, Oct 12, 2014 1:35 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo if there was an inner metal cylinder to contain reactants (particularly insanely

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-13 Thread Alain Sepeda
did not rossi already answer that question, by saying that the conductor inside were not so trivial... doped conductor he says... we should be careful not to take unfounded assumption, then deduce false things from that... maybe is it more simple to start from the instruments and guess how it is

[Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Robert Lynn
-Max average Ecat temp recorded in test 1412°C, 2.8kW heat output. - 20mm diameter, 200mm long, thermal conductivity of alumina 6W/m/K at 1400°C means for 1mm wall thickness would have 40°C through-wall temp differential, for 2mm would be 80°C. -So assuming 1mm wall thickness (probably

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Robert Lynn
Some questions on the thermography: Did they do thermography on all sides or only from front? If so how do we know that there wasn't some insulation internal to the alumina that restricted the heat output from the sides + bottom that were not recorded? The tube radiation would have heated the

RE: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Jones Beene
If Robert’s points were not devastating enough, there is more. From Ahern: “The calibrations stopped at 500C for a foolish if not deceptive reason… blackbody radiation was absorbed by the alumina to a greater extent at lower temperatures. If the power was increased to achieve temperatures of 1200

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Andrea Rossi who gradually brought it to the power level requested by us. Rossi later intervened to switch off the dummy, and in the following subsequent operations on the E-Cat.” (from page 6 of the original, before being edited out) It has not been

RE: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Jones Beene
Jed, Whether you realize it or not - you are sounding hugely hypocritical – especially based on the way you slimed DGT with far less evidence of misconduct, based on Kim’s report … and yet now, with almost overwhelming evidence that this report is bogus, contrived, and not independent in any

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Whether you realize it or not - you are sounding hugely hypocritical – especially based on the way you slimed DGT with far less evidence of misconduct, based on Kim’s report I have never discussed Kim's report. I do not understand it. Perhaps you mean

RE: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Jones Beene
From: Jed Rothwell You, Ahern, and the other skeptics have not addressed the reasons why a large mistake with the IR camera is unlikely. So I assume you have no rebuttal. Until you do respond I will assume the issue is settled and there is no problem. Are you blind – or you are not

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: You, Ahern, and the other skeptics have not addressed the reasons why a large mistake with the IR camera is unlikely. So I assume you have no rebuttal. Until you do respond I will assume the issue is settled and there is no problem. Are you blind –

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Axil Axil
Let’s keep an open mind and use logic as a powerful probe of the Rossi reactor. Robert’s analysis is a good one and it points to some contradictions between valid everyday engineering assumptions and the processes that are going on inside of the reactor. These factors are hard to reconcile. But

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: The actual temperature would be around 750 deg C (based on the calibration). The incandescent portions would show up as much more than 1400 deg C. Anyone can see that is impossible. I mean anyone can see that a real temperature difference on that scale is impossible. I am not

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Stefan Israelsson Tampe
During the discussion about the first TIP, at energikatalysatorn there was a huge stir about the applicability of using a heat camera to validate the output energy until a heat camera expert enter the discussion and although he was skeptical of the final result, said and explained thoroughly that

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: If the camera had been calibrated to 1400 C instead of 500 C it would have shown the same ~3.5 OU on the dummy load as was later seen on the active load! If this is true, it should be easy enough for someone to arrange a

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Robert Lynn
Fig 12b. page 26. Only just notice that they say they are inconel resistance wires. But how can the resistor wire, external to the reactor, glow more brightly than the reactor itself (implying it is hotter)? Also if the reactor external surface is at 1250-1410°C, then on top of the 30-50°C

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com wrote: There is also a mistake in their discussion for these figures, the metal resistors within the reactor would necessarily have to be hotter than the reactor itself if they are to be able to output heat into the

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Stefan Israelsson Tampe
How do we know that iti s resistive heating that is taking place? Bob Greenyer at MFMP sugested that it is an inductive heater this means that the wires get a bit cooler then the heated core. On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com wrote: Fig 12b. page 26.

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com wrote: This reactor is mostly nickel droplets in lithium gas (the hydrogen will all diffuse away through porous sintered alumina rapidly at such high temperatures, but perhaps is useful to create reducing conditions

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Robert Lynn
inductive heating only works on conductive materials with sufficient thickness/area through which the changing magnetic flux passes to allow eddy currents to form. With 150Hz pulses Nickel particles of tiny scale would not be affected (like thin motor laminates) - it would only work to heat a

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Stefan Israelsson Tampe
Yes but in that case the core can be hotter then the cables. We don't know about the powder, and the changes of magnetic fields inside the core could stir the powder around and by changing that behavior you might end up controlling the reaction rate. Also inductive heating of an inner containing

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Robert Lynn
they dropped the powder in through a hole and then sealed it with alumina refractory glue around a metal thermocouple (why are its readings not reported???). Apart from the fact that the 'glue' would have residual porosity that would probably help vent all hydrogen at high temp that is pretty

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Robert Lynn
far above curie limit for Ni, magnetic fields won't move powder magnetically, only ions, but temps are too low for significant Li or H ions to exist, and no ionising radiation sources in evidence. On 13 October 2014 00:49, Stefan Israelsson Tampe stefan.ita...@gmail.com wrote: Yes but in that

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Axil Axil
The tubercles on the nickel powder function to ionize the hydrogen using dipole motion induced by heat. On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com wrote: far above curie limit for Ni, magnetic fields won't move powder magnetically, only ions, but temps are

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Axil Axil
There are also iron particles in the fuel mix that might support inductive heating local to the fuel mix. Inductive heating might result in the primary heater wire being colder than the fuel charge thus casting a darker shadow that we see in the pictures of the reactor in operation. I like the

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Axil Axil
Rossi has said that he uses AC current in the heater and that DC current does not work. This might indicate 50 or 50 CPS AC current is used to induce heat in plasma and/or iron. On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: There are also iron particles in the fuel mix

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Axil Axil
50 or 50 CPS AC current should read 50 or 60 cycle AC current On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Rossi has said that he uses AC current in the heater and that DC current does not work. This might indicate 50 or 50 CPS AC current is used to induce heat in

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Stefan Israelsson Tampe
Robert I think you make good points, not sure what the inner cylinder is made of and I guess that if it is metal it has to be thin in order to not show up on the weight. There is also the possiblity that eddi current's heat the cyllinder at high temps but then can we keep the wires cold. Also,

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Robert Lynn
inductive heating works based on the area of the conductive loop cut by the changing magnetic field, the rate of change of the magnetic field and the conductivity of the material. Consequently microscopic powder made with high resistivity hot iron/nickel will have extremely weak response to any

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com wrote: Apart from the fact that the 'glue' would have residual porosity that would probably help vent all hydrogen at high temp that is pretty strong indicator that there is no refractory metal shell in there to

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Stefan Israelsson Tampe
There is still the evidences that ther is a coil and that rossi has the powder in a varying magnetic field. He could use the wires both as resistive heating and controlling the reaction rate, maybe, maybe because you can stir it using localized magnetic fields stemming from this very strange

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Axil Axil
It is said that Rossi uses a magnetic field to startup the E-Cat. Could this be a large infusion of inductive heat supported by aluminum or lithium aluminum? On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe stefan.ita...@gmail.com wrote: There is still the evidences that ther is a coil

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Robert Lynn
if there was an inner metal cylinder to contain reactants (particularly insanely leak-prone hydrogen at high temperatures) then it would be sealed by welding not half assed approaches like alumina glue. Until you have worked with hydrogen (I worked with stirling engines containing hydrogen) it is

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Axil Axil
This method of sealing and the fact that the reactor is not purged of air means that the hydrogen is bound in a solid as a hydride at all times to metals in the reactor most likely aluminum or lithium. On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com wrote: if there

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread ChemE Stewart
Activated alumina is a porous, granular substance that is used as a substrate for catalysts and as an adsorbent for removing water from gases and liquids. Smelter-grade alumina accounts for 90 percent of all alumina produced; it is transported to aluminum plants, where it is electrolyzed into

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Stefan Israelsson Tampe
Ok I agree, then they did not optimize on any unfourtunate transparancy effect. So to conclude * You can see the fins having the same temperature at the upper profile as the bulk meaning that any transparance light in that region is the same maxima superimposed - hard to explain an 3.5 cop there

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: An observer there for the opening reported no such refractory shell (though might be under NDA). Can you elaborate on this detail? Is it a CMNS thing? I'm strongly inclined to think there's an inner cylinder that slides within the body of the reactor. Otherwise the diamond saw

RE: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Jones Beene
From: Eric Walker Jones has also alluded to secret knowledge that there is an ampule (perhaps from Brian Ahern). Whoa… this is vortex guesswork, not secret, and was supplied by someone else here as being the best if not only way to avoid the hydrogen diffusion problem, the air

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread ChemE Stewart
I like Eric's link to Al2O3 as a diffusion barrier for H2 Diffusion Barrier to Oxygen and Hydrogen This process is unique because the processed alpha-Al2O3 molecules are FULLY OXIDIZED molecules with ORDERED STRUCTURES. The alpha-Al2O3 oxide structure, once formed, serves as a nearly perfect

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread a.ashfield
Jones wrote: A pyrometer is the only way to test high temperature accurately. The IR is completely deficient in this situation. Ahern was doing this kind of testing as far back as when Rossi was operating the etrodragon scam. Not true. A type B platinum thermocouple is highly accurate in the

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread David Roberson
-Original Message- From: Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, Oct 12, 2014 12:24 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo Fig 12b. page 26. Only just notice that they say

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread David Roberson
-Original Message- From: Stefan Israelsson Tampe stefan.ita...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, Oct 12, 2014 12:49 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo Yes but in that case the core can be hotter then the cables. We

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread ChemE Stewart
-l@eskimo.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','vortex-l@eskimo.com'); Sent: Sun, Oct 12, 2014 12:24 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo Fig 12b. page 26. Only just notice that they say they are inconel resistance wires. But how can

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread David Roberson
...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, Oct 12, 2014 9:54 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo Right, if the reaction/core is producing the heat and not the wires. On Sunday, October 12, 2014, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread David Roberson
, 2014 1:35 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo if there was an inner metal cylinder to contain reactants (particularly insanely leak-prone hydrogen at high temperatures) then it would be sealed by welding not half assed approaches like

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-12 Thread Robert Lynn
-Original Message- From: Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, Oct 12, 2014 1:35 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo if there was an inner metal cylinder to contain reactants