At 06:46 PM 6/20/2011, Terry Blanton wrote:
Unless liquid water is traveling up the chimney to the hose, the only
way for the water to exit the reactor is to first be converted to a
gas.
There are two ways, dependent on design.
The first way is, yes, liquid water travels up the chimney, being
forced by steam pressure accumulating behind it. This would generally
be avoiding by ensuring that rising steam bubbles cannot be trapped
anywhere inside, but will exit the chimney.
The second would be that something is producing an aerosol. this
would be below the operating temperature, I'd think.
The interesting thing is that Rossi has now acknowledged that there
is some water in the hose. Some would accumulate there from
condensation, and it's possible that Rossi's concern that this, which
would be water at the boiling point, generally, might be spit out the
hose, was just based on that. Having an openable valve at the top of
the chimney would generally handle this, one could see the exiting
steam directly, without that long hose for it to consense in. It
would be very simple to set up, with a tee and two valves, one in the
hose that comes off horizontally, the other in the top of the tee
that can be opened to allow steam to escape directly. This should
never spit water if it's at the very top.
Unless turbulence inside is causing an aerosol or spitting of some kind.
