Recent content by aluminumholds

Thanks for the table BoB, they'll definitely be useful. As of know I don't have a way to limit temperatures...however I've done some more reading and know that I need to have saturated steam, not superheated steam; to capture the latent heat of water condensing.

400F would be my max temperature in the heat pipes.

Hey everyone, I'm building my first evacuated tube solar oven and I seem to run into a problem I can't get around. First of all, I am going to use half inch type K copper pipes with water as a heat transfer fluid. I am putting a vacuum (100 mbar or so) on the tubes to lower the boiling point...