thank you so much- great idea- in part inspired by the molten tin idea this will be AXIL DIXIT for today in the Blog
Peter On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter's instinct about liquid tin as a heat transfer medium is well > founded, but in the context of the Hot cat reactor architecture as it > currently stands, the integration of the current Hot cat with the well > known and mature heat pipe technology is a better engineering solution. > > A heat pipe is a amazing and highly efficient heat-transfer device that > combines the principles of both thermal conductivity of liquid metal with > its phase transition to efficiently manage the transfer of heat between two > solid interfaces. > > At the hot interface of a heat pipe, a liquid metal in contact with a > thermally conductive solid surface turns into a vapor by absorbing heat > from that surface. The vapor then travels along the heat pipe at supersonic > speeds to the cold interface and condenses back into a liquid that > releases the latent heat. The liquid then returns to the hot interface > through either capillary action of a patterned inner surface of the pipe to > repeat in a continual cycle. Due to the very high heat transfer > coefficients for boiling and condensation, heat pipes are highly effective > thermal conductors. The effective thermal conductivity varies with heat > pipe length, and can approach 100 kW/(cm2) for long heat pipes which is 200 > times more powerful in comparison with copper. > > Using the heat pipe concept, the Hot-Cat industrial plant could be > designed to function in a completely passive mode without any moving parts > or computers. The key to this design is to use a small diameter lithium > moly or zirconium heat pipe (2cm) to remove high temperature heat from the > reactor core. A lithium heat pipe operates in the heat range between 900C > and 1700C. This powerful implimentation of the heat pipe has a heat > transfer capability many thousands of times grater than boiling water. In > detail, the heat transfer capacity moves heat at 125 kilowatts per square > centimeter of surface area. Such heat transfer power could literally cool > the surface of the Sun. > > Unlike Rossi's system, such a system would operate as an sealed isolated > unit in a vacuum with the core of the Hot cat at ambient pressure. > > How to select the right heat pipe for a given application. > > > https://www.enertron-inc.com/pdf/thermal_design_guildines/How-to-select-a-heat-pipe.pdf > > A CO2 turbine generator the size of a bread box could be integrated into > the heat pipe Hot cat to generate electric power. Alternatively, a closed > cycle liquid metal magnetohydrodynamic generator (MHD generator) could do > the job without any moving parts. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_generator > > Rossi will face devastating competition from advanced power plant designs > when the mystery of the Hot-Cat core is resolved. > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Peter Gluck <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dear Friends, >> >> I hope you will like this: >> >> >> http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2015/02/lenr-initiatives-present-and-future.html >> >> not only because it is a bit shorter than usual. >> >> Please send me DIKW's- you have access to and I not! >> Thanks! >> Peter >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Peter Gluck >> Cluj, Romania >> http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com >> > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
