On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>wrote:
> At 03:58 PM 7/19/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: > > In the paper they show how their technique can measure steam quality to >> within a few per cent between 5% and 80%. 5% corresponds to 5 % steam by >> mass, and yes, that means 95% liquid by mass. >> > > That seems to be the official definition of steam quality: mass of vapor > divided by total mass. So 0% quality means pure liquid, 100% would be pure > vapor, "high-quality steam." However, people have been referring to the > inverse, the percentage of steam that is liquid, creating, possibly, come > confusion. Dry steam is 0% liquid by mass. > Right. Wetness and dryness are different. The point is that wet steam can most definitely be 95% or more liquid by mass. It's produced and measured experimentally. It is completely plausible that such wet steam is produced in the ecat. It makes much more sense than liquid water filling the chimney, and steam at 10 or more times the volume somehow passing through it. Wet steam is not a red herring.
