Higgins’s question about the schematic plan of the plant should settle everything.
Normally a system producing steam as the heat transfer agent will have a condenser with a condensate pump in the sump of the condenser. There is a negative pressure—not a back pressure as Jed has suggested. It is created by the condenser, thus the condenser creates the differential pressure driving the steam from the boiler to the heat sink. The feed pumps require a net positive suction head to operate properly without cavitation. This would normally be established by the condensate pump(s). If there were voids—air bubbles for example—in the feed line, the pumps would fail in short more than likely. Undesirable two-phase (air/water) feed flow to the reactor would create water hammer which could not be tolerated for long and be very noticeable to anyone near the steam producing plant. I find it hard to believe that Rossi would file suit without knowing for sure the steam system worked as I have suggested. It is telling that discovery has not brought such a schematic into the court record. Rossi’s lawyers stand to make a fortune on IH stringing out the court proceedings IMHO. Bob Cook Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Bob Higgins Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 7:12 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:I calculated his power output from his own data. It isveryexciting and he may have something real that he is blundering with.Seebelow. Has there yet been published in the court documents, a schematic of Rossi's system showing the location of the pumps and flow gauge? On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 7:38 AM, Brian Ahern <ahern_br...@msn.com> wrote: Yesterday I corrected the Rossi calculations. I failed to note the water was above 100C with no pressure to keep it in the liquid phase. The metering device cannot function with a compressible fluid. It will always measure higher values than measuring it as a single liquid phase at the input. Measuring the flow beyond the heating stage is OK if the output temperature is below 100C. Allowing the temperature to exceed 100C is a surfire way to get inflated flow measurements. Rossi was warned about involving two phase fluid flow. He did it anyway because it is so easy the provide inflated values. I agree with Jed that this was the most ambiguous method possible. Use the minimum power to get to 103 C and have your flow meters operate in a two phase mode that is guaranteed to over report flow rates due to the increased compressibility. Once again he selected the most ambiguous method .
