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Oh woops, it's 24,000 but I didn't process that extra 0 on the end and thought it was only 2,400 and actually yes I have thought of another way to get energy from this process but it's much simpler so I think I'll just try testing it out first and see how it goes

I'm not planning on purifying it so hopefully I'll only need to produce the vacuum once and keep the system closed also as a side note I've found something intriguing. Compost Power Jean Pain Mound Project Summer 2011 by anenergyoptomist on YouTube, his mound of mulch is 40 meters cubed and with...

Although this isn't using the convective heat transfer equation in that link you sent me. I found that equation earlier but was unable to find water's convective heat coefficient is (some sites say between 50-3000 or I suppose 3-100 since the water is boiling...

So that means at this scale at least it would take a day to boil away one gallon of water (100 w/h = 360 Kj/h. 360/2438 = 0.15 Kg/h. 3.79 Kg/0.15 Kg/h = 25 hours)

Thank you for solving that for me, what is the equation you used to solve it with compressible flow so I can use it for future problems?

Ok then specifically I'm putting the container into a compost pile which at it's highest temperature will reach about 60C

And I don't see how it's vague, the whole container is going to be 60C as if it were for example submerged in warm water or wrapped up in a heating blanket

I actually am going to construct and test this which is why I wanted to have some idea what would have before-hand

The water is in a closed container and that container is being heated from all sides so yeah It could be the air around it and the issue is I can't measure it by the input because this heat isn't being supplied by and electrical force or anything else I can measure like imagine it's in a super...

The thermal conductivity of water at 30C is about .62 W/MK. Since the whole area around the water is 60C the area would be 452.39 inches or 0.0074 Meters (it's in a cylinder with a radius of 6 inches filled up to the 5 inch mark). the temperature difference is 30C and I'm not sure what to say...

The water itself isn't 60C but the thing boiling the water is

Thanks ^-^

How would I calculate the rate that water would boil off? I've done a lot of looking into and found an equation but it doesn't seem quite right. What I found states that the KJ/h delivered to the water divided by the latent heat energy gives you the amount of water that will boil off. I tried...

Ok! Thanks :)

But I'm not even 100% sure I'm using the correct equation