At 08:25 PM 8/17/2011, Joe Catania wrote:
Whatever the quality of the steam produced is, as far as I can see, going to go over into the hose unchanged. There is no facility in Rossi's device for superheating as far as we know.
It will get a little wetter from condensation due to expansion at the outlet port into the hose (which obviously has a larger inner diameter, and the pressure relief will result in a slightly lower temperature.
There is another way in which the steam can get wetter, and this is an important mechanism, it may be happening. That's liquid water overflow that is atomized in the process of exit from the reactor through the outlet port. If we have overflow conditions, with substantial steam flow, the velocity of the steam will increase greatly as it enters the relatively small outlet hole. That will "suck" liquid from a level at the hole bottom up into the steam flow, atomizing it. Only with relatively low flow would liquid water actually flow out as such.
How long that water stays suspended as droplets, I don't know. It certainly depends on the flow rate, though!
