Recent content by Gary K

The point of the question is, If you vent a boiler to atmosphere faster than it can keep up, are you using more bhp (pounds per hour) than the boiler is rated for a brief period of time. When the gate valve was open about 1/8 we were seeing about 450 pounds per hour coming out of the pipe. When...

Just completed an experiment using a Cleaver Brooks 30bhp boiler rated at 140 PSI. At 40 PSI I did a "vent to atmosphere" test with a water meter attached to the boiler feed tank. I was able to find the equilibrium point of the boiler (didn't kick off, pressure remained fairly constant) over the...

I'm curious what you determined to be a solution for the bearing temperature problem. Thanks!

We are still just a two-man team. One of us does have a physics background, but not a degree.

Thank you very much Ronie. I had not run across this in my searches.

Greetings, I'm preparing for an experiment on a modified Tesla Turbine design and will need to condense the exhaust steam rapidly in order to measure the pounds per hour of saturated steam that goes through the system. Incoming steam could be as high as 90 PSI through a 1" pipe. As the turbine...