eletias
08-17-2001, 11:03 AM
I plan to right up a piece on steam engine basic principles, to submit to Village press, to be considered to for print.
On of my basic understandings, that steam compresses less at higher pressure than ordinary air because of the amount of liquid saturated water vapor in the steam vapor, was contrary to results of my home test that showed steam vapor compressed more so at lower pressure dividing into liquid water and saturated steam.
On re-expansion, the compressed air pressed the plunger back farther, the liquid part of steam stayed water and steam hardly expanded back to any real volume.
There are far more dynamics going on in the internals of steam engine operation, than one can picture trying to comprehend in the forces of pressure, heat, and vapor/liquid, all acting out in their way in landscape of dynamics that is ever changing with changing steam governing.
There is no doubt that if the compression continued in my experiment, the air would continued to compression a curve, will the steam charge would ran into wall compressing on the volume of non compressible liquid water collection.
There is no on piece of data telling or illistrating the ratio of pressure and saturation, that is then compressed, and I bet time in thermal losses will have a great effect on results.
On of my basic understandings, that steam compresses less at higher pressure than ordinary air because of the amount of liquid saturated water vapor in the steam vapor, was contrary to results of my home test that showed steam vapor compressed more so at lower pressure dividing into liquid water and saturated steam.
On re-expansion, the compressed air pressed the plunger back farther, the liquid part of steam stayed water and steam hardly expanded back to any real volume.
There are far more dynamics going on in the internals of steam engine operation, than one can picture trying to comprehend in the forces of pressure, heat, and vapor/liquid, all acting out in their way in landscape of dynamics that is ever changing with changing steam governing.
There is no doubt that if the compression continued in my experiment, the air would continued to compression a curve, will the steam charge would ran into wall compressing on the volume of non compressible liquid water collection.
There is no on piece of data telling or illistrating the ratio of pressure and saturation, that is then compressed, and I bet time in thermal losses will have a great effect on results.