On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote:
> In an open boiler with a submerged heating element, the steam won't rise > above 100 C, because its temperature is buffered by the liquid water with > which it's in contact. In a pipeline, once the water has boiled away to > steam, the steam is no longer in intimate contact with liquid water, but > it's still in contact with the heating element, and there's nothing to keep > it from getting hotter as it moves along the tube. You are making assumptions about the geometry of the device. How do you know there is no liquid water reservoir? T
