On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:41 PM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > > BTW: The heat represented by the difference between 130C and 100C (30calories/gm) is about 5% of the heat of vaporization of water: ([30 * calorie] / gramm) / ([2201.4 * joule] / gramm) = 0.057056419 So that is Rossi's margin of error in the mass flow rate.
