Shaun,
I don't know if you know the following thread but this topic has been
analyzed before:
http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg52981.html
Further, Rossi answered to a question regarding the thermocouple placement:
http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg52669.html
Wolf
Image of heat transfer material and location of thermocouple bead
before the insulation was removed.
http://i43.tinypic.com/zk65b4.jpg
I'm no expert but those who are always tell me to get valid
temperature data with a bead thermocouples, the bead head needs to be
covered with a thermal transfer compound and the bead head needs to be
in full face contact with the heat source.
Knowing that and looking at the Lewans close up, that seems to have
been taken earlier than any other image of that location I can find,
where the bead head was located and the removal path it followed
during it's removal is clear.
Shaun
On 22/01/2012 5:00 PM, Shaun Taylor wrote:
I refer the reader to this report by your own Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/Rossi6Oct2011Review.pdf
Please to to the bottom of page 3 where Horace discussed the placement
of the Tout thermocouple and in particular these 3 images
http://www.redmatica.com/media/Thermo1.jpg
http://www.redmatica.com/media/Thermo2.jpg
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/LewanTcoupleClose.jpg
You need to look at the first 2 images before looking at the smoking gun
evidence in the 3rd image.
The device in the images is a parallel plate counter flow heat exchanger
in which the input primary heat inlet is applied at the same end as the
secondary heat outlet.
This allows a dual function manifold, which is the big brass thing in
the images that couples the input primary steam tubing to the heat
exchanger primary inlet and in the same solid assembly couples the
secondary heat exchange outlet to the outlet piping.
Doing this, I have read, increases efficiency in counter flow heat
exchangers as there is heat transfer occurring from the hot steam end of
the manifold through the manifold body to the cooler outlet water flow
end of the manifold.
As the inlet water temperature was reported as about 23 deg C and the
inlet steam was at about 110 deg C, the temperature differential across
the manifold body could span that temperature range.
You could then selectively place a thermocouple bead somewhere on that
manifold body and get anything from 110 deg C to 23 deg C. With just a
bit of trial and error you would be able to find the perfect spot to
make the Tout appear to be anything you desire. Like 10 deg C above the
inlet water temperature.
Horace assumed from the 3rd image that the thermocouple was suspended in
the air in front of the stainless nut or attached to the nut.
I contend, from my brief usage of thermocouples, they need some thermal
goop around the bead head to ensure a good heat transfer from the
measuring surface to the thermocouple head. In 3rd image do you see any
goop anywhere? Any on the stainless nut? Nope. Any anywhere else? Yup.
On the brass fitting to the right and below of the stainless nut. In
fact it sure looks like there was a thermocouple sized head placed in
the goop and then withdrawn as the insulation was opened and removed.
Zoom in to get a really good look at the goop. See the withdrawal track
in the goop that is about the same size as that of the thermocouple
bead? There is your smoking gun as to where the bead was located. It was
thermally attached to the upper surface of that brass coupling that is
thermally attached to the manifold body.
Now ask yourself, if your intention was to accurately measure the
temperature of the water leaving the dual manifold head, why would you
attach the thermocouple to the manifold and not insert in into the
stream of the exiting water?
Well just maybe as the manifold was also heated by the 110 deg C steam
flowing into the heat exchanger it would be a good place for the Tout
thermocouple to pick up a higher than reality temperature for the
exiting water flow.
The goop and the necessary kink in the wire is there to allow the
thermocouple head to attach where the goop is and are more than a
smoking gun of intentional fraud. It is proof of fraud.
I also suggest the kink in the wire was there to allow the bead position
to be easily altered, moved or slid across the surface of the brass
fitting so as to tune the Tout temperature to be exactly what Rossi
needed to best fake the 6 Oct data.
The 6 Oct Ecat data is rubbish as Horace Heffner originally claimed.
Horace got it right and most of the rest of you got it wrong.
Rossi you are a serial liar and you are busted for intentional
measurement fraud.
You rigged the Tout thermocouple placement onto the manifold body to
generate a higher than reality temperature of the exiting water stream
instead of inserting the thermocouple head into the stream of the
exiting water and directly measuring the temperature of the water.
Busted, Busted, Busted. Fraud, Fraud, Fraud. Liar, Liar, Liar.
That should just about wrap this up.
Anyone still think Rossi has made a significant contribution to
humanity?
Shaun
