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Thank you (again) so much for your reply. I will look that up Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfe and keep you posted. Cheers Stoody

Mapes, Thank you for your response. What I am driving at with my question is; would a very very small input of energy eventually boil a super insulated vessel or would things like the convection of the water in the vessel dissipate that heat (admitally very slowly) or is the convection movement...

Heat loss from an insulated water tank ----- Thermodynamics Hi and thanks in advance for any help with this problem. If I have a very very well insulated tank of water of say 4 litres. If we could assume that the tank had no heat loss... The tank is heated by an electrical device that...