Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]> wrote:
> NyTeknik maintains that the liquid mass is at most 10% (steam quality at >> least 90%) and because of this there is no significant error in measuring >> the heat output using the steam. >> > > That's based on a steam expert, apparently, who has probably never seen, in > his entire career, a "boiler" that is designed so that feed water spills > out. So he doesn't consider the possibility. This is your hypothesis. Experts in steam have considered this possibility, and they say you cannot be right. Storms -- who is admittedly not an expert but still very smart -- also thinks you are wrong, for the reasons he spelled out. The gist of it is that no steam would emerge from the hose, which would be full water moving so slowly that by the time it reached the exit the steam would all be condensed. Perhaps you are right, but I think it is bad form to assert an hypothesis as if it were a settled fact. I do not think we have enough information to rule this out completely, but it is certainly not ruled in for sure, and experts disagree. With some tests of the eCat we can rule this out. It seems unlikely to me that it works in some tests but not others. - Jed
