If I understand this discussion, you appear to be engaging in massive
doublethink here.
You're trying to explain a bogus reading of the meter while /assuming/
that the system was actually producing 1 MW of heat.
If it was generating 1 MW then the meter reading was presumably
/correct/, and in that case there's nothing funky about the meter that
needs to be explained, save for the constant flow rate and other
anomalies Jed has mentioned.
It's only if the system /wasn't/ generating a megawatt that there's an
anomalously high flow reading to explain, and in that case you can't
very well assume that much heat is being dissipated.
So, either the meter reading was anomalously high and the heat was much
lower than a megawatt, /or/ the meter reading was more or less bang-on,
and there was a megawatt of heat being dissipated somewhere. But not both.
On 08/08/2016 11:52 PM, David Roberson wrote:
OK, interesting concept. I was thinking along the lines of how a heat
pump operates. It consists of a closed system with a pump(compressor)
and a strong restriction to the flowing fluid as well as heat
exchangers. A low pressure return pipe carries the active fluid in
vapor form to the pump. If sufficient heat is not absorbed by the
expanding mixture then some of it remains in the liquid form. I
wonder if a significant portion of that mixture in Rossi's case might
be vapor, leading to false reading within the gauge ahead of the pump?
This is merely a conceptual idea to digest.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Rocha <[email protected]>
To: John Milstone <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, Aug 8, 2016 9:19 pm
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Problems with Rossi's flow meter described in court
document
I was thinking more of the cooling mechanism, which had to cool 1MW.
The surface area is very large. In less then 3D (scale of the tubes in
1D in comparison to other), turbulence can go from small vortices to
high, and when it exits to large tubes it goes from high vortices to
low. Depending on the design, a lot of cavitation may form and
accumulate in the flow meter, if no system to elimate bubles is developed.
2016-08-08 21:32 GMT-03:00 David Roberson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
I agree, the pump might actually lower the pressure at its input
enough to allow the water to vaporize if the flow is restricted
ahead of the gauge.
Dave
