On 11-06-23 03:04 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
At 10:43 PM 6/22/2011, Craig Haynie wrote:
How does Rossi control the water flow rate? If too much water flows,
then it would not all convert to steam and it would pour out of the
outlet. If it's too slow then the reactor would overheat. Does he
control the water flow by its effect on reactor temperature? Is there
some other sort of feedback mechanism?
It's been suggested that there must be such a feedback mechanism, but
it's not been shown, and it's been assumed in the calculations that
feed rate is kept constant, I think.
Water flow rate is not controlled; it is constant. The "feedback
assumption" is that heater power is varied based on the effluent temp to
keep the temp barely over boiling.
The "feedback assumption" is unsupported by any evidence AFAIK.
