I wrote:
> Look at Exhibit 5, and also look at what Rossi told Lewan. The temperature > is just over 100°C and the flow rate is 36,000 kg per day. The pressure is > 0 bar. It is the same every day, including days when the reactor was shut > down, according to Exhibit 5. > > If you assume there was actually some pressure, then there was only hot > water, not steam, where the temperature went from 60°C to 100°C. Assume > there was 20 kW of input power. That's 20,000 J/s = 4,780 cal. . . . > Let me revise this using the numbers from Exhibit 5. Exhibit 5 shows the water reservoir was 68.7°C and the fluid was 102.8°C, a temperature difference of 34.1°C. As described in Exhibit 5, the pressure of 0.0 bar is unlikely because it would mean the reactor room is in a vacuum. "Given the foregoing, this would require that the pressure on the JMP side of the building was significantly below atmospheric (vacuum) and that the steam would flow at extraordinary velocity." Let me assume the pressure was a little higher than 1 atm. That means the fluid was pressurized and it was probably not steam. It was probably hot water. Assume it was hot water and the temperature increased by 34.1°C. Input power was 20,000 J/s = 4,780 cal. Divide by 34.1°C gives a flow rate of 140 g/s. That's 8.41 kg/minute or 12,111 kg/day. The flow meter indicated 36,000 kg/day, so I estimate it was wrong by a factor of ~3. As I said, that is not a surprising error, given that the pipe was half full and it was the wrong kind of flow meter. - Jed
