Re: Boiler Circulation
Posted by:
Peter Heid (IP Logged)
Date: February 18, 2002 03:06PM
<HTML>I was thinking about importance of circulation after reading some on the subject. My numbers may be wrong but I'm sure you will get the idea. If a steam generator coil 100 feet long, with an ID of 1/2 inch, were to produce steam at 100 lbs/sq ft/hour at 1500 psi, that would be about 0.10 cu ft/sec. If we were to sweep the bubbles away when they reached a size of 0.100 inches in diameter, then to acheive 0.10 cu ft/sec we would need to sweep 126,000,000 bubbles from the tube walls every second.
I guess I have too much time to think, maybe I should get a TV or something.
Peter Heid</HTML>