At 01:56 PM 4/19/2011, Jones Beene wrote:
Now you can parse all of this information and
look at the images of the size of the reactor
which are small - and estimate how much weight
of material for 'many channels' is possible. The
report which I was made aware of did this, and
as you can see - I am far from being an expert
in thermodynamics, so it is not my conclusion,
but nevertheless - it should be a part of the
recordÂ… anyway, it was claiming that there was
neither room nor extra mass for fins or
channels. I listed that as the caveat. Rossi
also says the water flow is straight thru.
Straight through what? I'm not sure what that
means. The air flow is "straight through" an
automobile radiator, but it has many channels.
Does the water come into contact with the nickel?
If it does, this might be very simple. If not,
there must be channels, but they could be very thin.
If the heat generation rate would be 30+
kcal/sec as you state and a flow rate of a liter
per second and a delta T of ?? then it should be
possible to guesstimate the surface area
necessary, for those variables - given the known conductivity of stainless.
Would you agree so far ?
Yes, it should be possible to estimate a minimum.
The material for the channels is unknown. The
thickness of the tubing (internal) is unknown, is
it? What is are the channels or tubing made of?
You seem to be assuming stainless steel why?
Copper? How is the heat transfer to the coolant arranged?
