On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:19 PM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's true if there is no latent heat of vaporization represented in the > liquid water. With careful setting of the water flow rate, one can > approach vaporization within the reactor vessel without any actual > vaporization. THAT is the critical parameter here. Indeed, for effective > heat transfer, you don't want ANY vaporization as the heat transfer drops > off precipitously as soon as you start forming surface bubbles. For Rossi > to allow bubbles to form on the heat transfer surface would be dangerous if > the reaction rate was indeed proportional to temperature as he says. Did > Rossi carefully tweak his resistive heating sustained system so that he > achieved, say, 200C inside the reaction vessel with a liquid water flow > very close to, but not achieving vaporization? At this point, until > convinced otherwise, I'm not willing to dispense with any further > investigations on the speculation that he could not have done so. > 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.
