That would mean the Tiger E-Cats would have to be completely flooded.
But the level gauges don't show that.
Why not suggest pixie dust?
On 8/20/2016 1:51 PM, David Roberson wrote:
Today I made an interesting calculation that some may find relevant to
the ongoing discussions.
According to steam tables, the following could be possible, assuming
that I did not make a mistake in my calculations.
Assume you have 1kg of water inside a solid container at 130 C and
39.2 psi absolute. Then you place a restriction device that allows
all of the liquid to eventually escape. Some of the liquid will
immediatly flash into vapor while most of the 1 kg remains in the
liquid form as it exits the restriction. If you assume that the
resulting mixture ends up at 102 C and 15.75 psi absolute then it is
possible to calculate the amount of vapor and liquid that is present
at that location.
The internal energy of the initial liquid at 130 C is 546.388 kj/kg
which in this case yields 546.388 thousand joules. I am assuming that
this same amount of energy remains within the liquid and vapor
combintation of the lower temperature and pressure stream.
When I solved the equation relating the quality of the mixture to the
various heat contents I determined that there would be .053 kg or
vapor and .947 kg of liquid water at the output. On first glance, this
result suggests that it should be easy to separate the water from the
steam, but actually calculating the two volumes makes that not so evident.
The volume of the vapor would be .053 kg * 1.565 cubic meters per kg =
.0826 cubic meters. The volume of the liquid water would be .947 kg*
.001045 cubic meters per kg = .000989 cubic meters.
Using the above numbers it appears that you would have 83.488 times as
much vapor by volume as liquid. This is quite a large ratio which
suggests that it might well be possible to mistake a stream of mass
with this consistency as consisting of only vapor. Especially if a
visual technique were used.
I am not saying that this calculation reveals the source of the Rossi
test confusion, but that perhaps it might open discussions that have
not been considered so far. I do recall that on earlier
demonstrations that the temperature within the ECATs was reported to
be in the range of 130 C.
Perhaps some of our mathematically inclined vortex residents can take
a few moments to verify that my assumptions and calculations make sense.
Dave
