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some bloke
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Hello everyone,
I'm aiming to produce a lightweight steam engine, which will essentially have a coil of copper tube inside the walls of a tube made of >your suggestions here<. this tube is the exhaust for a blowtorch.
The principle is that this tube gets very hot, then transfers heat to the water flowing through the coil of copper embedded in it, which becomes superheated steam. I want to store as much heat as possible, but with as little weight as possible.
I know that there are a lot of properties relating to heat, like specific heat capacity, but I don't fully understand them. I need some insight to help me to select the ideal material for this high temperature exhaust heat store.
What are the ideal properties I should be looking for? is the amount of heat energy it can store directly related to mass? is it an impossible task, and it's simply "the denser the better"?
Any feedback will be greatly welcomed!
I'm aiming to produce a lightweight steam engine, which will essentially have a coil of copper tube inside the walls of a tube made of >your suggestions here<. this tube is the exhaust for a blowtorch.
The principle is that this tube gets very hot, then transfers heat to the water flowing through the coil of copper embedded in it, which becomes superheated steam. I want to store as much heat as possible, but with as little weight as possible.
I know that there are a lot of properties relating to heat, like specific heat capacity, but I don't fully understand them. I need some insight to help me to select the ideal material for this high temperature exhaust heat store.
What are the ideal properties I should be looking for? is the amount of heat energy it can store directly related to mass? is it an impossible task, and it's simply "the denser the better"?
Any feedback will be greatly welcomed!