On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:58 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:41 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I recall the manometer registered 3 bar, which is 300kPa which >> corresponds to a potential liquid water temperature of 130C at the exit >> from the reaction vessel. This doesn't leave him a lot of room to play >> with before bubbles start forming on the heat transfer surface of the >> reactors, but there is some -- enough to make the system plausible. >> >> > BTW: The heat represented by the difference between 130C and 100C > (30calories/gm) is about 5% of the heat of vaporization of water: > > ([30 * calorie] / gramm) / ([2201.4 * joule] / gramm) > = 0.057056419 > > So that is Rossi's margin of error in the mass flow rate. > > But if it's liquid at 105C, and the local bp is 130C, then the water temperature will be proportional to the ecat power. And therefore a narrow range of temperatures corresponds to an implausibly narrow range of ecat power.
