I hope your piping is better than class 150, and your fittings better than schedule 40. Preferably you would want to use class 3000 pipe and schedule 80 fittings of 316/316L stainless steal. The strength of stainless steal decreases rapidly with an increase in temperature. I imaging, the same is true of steel. There's no convincing evidence that Rossi's pressure vessels operate above ~110 C nominal. Therefore you could be running with materials more weakened by temperature than Rossi's. You might google "stainless steel yield strength vs temp" if interested.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:13 PM, ecat builder <ecatbuil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been trying to replicate the E-Cat transmutations in an open-source > kind of way and I'm ready to start asking the community for suggestions on > how to proceed. > > I have two identical reactors that I can pressurize with hydrogen up to 20 > bars and heat to 300C. I can measure, graph, and log the temperatures of the > two units as they are heated in parallel. One unit contains Ni powder, the > other sand, and I am trying to replicate the transmutation of the nickel. > (My whole setup is <$2K) > > - Brad >
