Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: When the Cat-E was downsized, the reaction chamber was greatly reduced in > size. So was the internal heater in like proportion. But the copper pipes in > the water loop are standard commercial grade sizes and therefore stayed the > same size. . . . >
> . . . The reaction chamber must get up to 400C to condition the catalyst > with hydrogen when the hydrogen is initially loaded. The internal heater > could not do that any longer since it would have been greatly downsized. > > > > A supplemental external band heater was added to heat these external copper > piping in the water loop so that the internally heater wound not have to > overcome that heat drain overhead imposed by the structure of the Cat-E. > Ah! That makes sense. That sounds plausible. Did you just make that up, or is that something Rossi indicated in his blog? (Or did someone else say it?) Come to think of it, E&K do refer to it as an "auxiliary electric heater" perhaps meaning there is another heater. I suppose you could not use it for this purpose if the water is flowing. - Jed
