Jeff Driscoll wrote: > > Mark Iverson wrote: >> >> If the instrument is reading 10g/m^3, then ALL the inlet water is being > converted to vapor, and the > > This is wrong. > I wrote in a another thread that the Relative Humidity detector is > pegged at 100% for any saturated steam with a quality between 0 and > 100%. The capacitance reading will not change as the steam quality > changes, it is not sensitive to steam quality. So you can't measure > 10 g/m^3 as vapor because the relative humidity meter only tells you > that there is saturated vapor in contact with it. Are you trained in > science in anyway? The Relative Humidity meter will never give you > steam quality. Jed in particular needs understand this because people > seem to listen to him.
If we assume the steam is dry but it also contains air, wouldn't that lower the RH and also reduce the energy needed to make the steam? If so, then "steam quality" is not just an issue of wet vs dry steam. Harry
