Recent content by Ben Reade

Tire data on request from manufacturer. Tire PSI of 22. A value of 3,500N to 4,000N from braking is roughly what I was expecting. Perhaps a bit lower. Ranger Mike here is what data I have for the tires and I'm working on getting extra information from a team mate. Yes how would I...

Hello, Firstly thank you for reading my post. This is an interesting question I was wondering if anyone here could teach me how to work out. Say if you had a large go-kart (FSAE/Formula Student if anyone knows of that) and you were driving at 120kph and hit the brakes and stopped in 3 seconds...

Hello there, So with say a Ground Source Heat Pump you have a source of warm-ish water coming in at 10 - 15 degrees C or so, and using a Heat Pump you are able to get a central heating temperature of about 40 degrees for your central heating system. Could you in theory, use a inlet water...

Ok so I followed the selection guide This is where I get confused. Lets say the water has cooled down from 33C (91.4F) to 25C and air temperature is 20C (68F) Water velocity is 3ft/sec Calculated heat loss required to cool from 33C to 25C = 1,512,466 BTU Air and water correction =...

Thanks insightful. I'm completely blanking on how you worked out the surface area. I absolutely cannot figure it out from the website. I just don't understand because once you cool the volume of water to a lower delta T that the heat the radiator is taking out the water (the heat output)...

Ok so to complete restart the conversation. I'm going to through out the pipe idea. 1500 metres of pipe sounds like too much. I've seen in some buildings they run central heating water through a pipe around the room and its heats the building like that. So, I want to cool 60 metres cubic of hot...

Hey Jlefevre76. Yes this is exactly what I was looking for. I was going down this same route myself. I was thinking I could work out the rate of heat transfer per unit of pipe, and do this over and over again. This is where I got so confused though. My dirty secret is that I've never really...

Yeah I was thinking I just pass it through a load of radiators. But this was where it got confusing, surely the 100 Watt output of the radiator is only when it is being run with regular 60 degree hot water from the house supply. Surely, when the water temperature drops, the heat output of the...

Thanks for the reply. Ok so I've got 8.631 MJ of heat to remove if I want ot go from 60 degrees to 25 degree. And if I passed it through a long copper pipe then on average it would be producing 99.89 watts. If a halogen light bulb at 100 watts produces like 3 watts of light and 97 watts of...

Thanks for the reply. Yes, it sure has changed a lot of things :) :) :)

Thanks for the reply russ. Yes this is the first time I've really applied knowledge such as thermodynamics I've been 'taught' at university to a real life situation. Really what we want to know is if we can cool the water heat by heating the building. I'm looking for an answer as to whether or...

Hello everyone! I wish I knew about this forum when I was doing Physics at school! Place looks awesome.

Hello there, Firstly I would like to welcome myself to the forum, my name is Ben and I'm 21 and I'm from the Isle of Mull off the west coast of Scotland. I am studying mechanical engineering and this question has been giving me a massive headache. If I have 60m3 of water at 60oC in a tank...