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Originally Posted by Arragonis
Interesting - I thought you couldn't pump steam - something I was told when onsite at a Nuclear station in the early 90s.
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I'm not going to pump steam (although you can just like you can pump air). I'm going to pump water that will turn into steam.
Also I might decided to go with a design change. I found I can get an electric pump that does a gallon per minute at 60 psi. I'll uses this instead of the feed tank because I can set it up to intermittently inject water into the piping. This will allow the piping to heat up more in between pulses and produce hotter steam. It also allows me to turn it off when I'm at full boost and the waste gate is open. I need to talk this over with my steam buddy to see what he thinks of this as the sudden heat changes might fatigue the piping.
EDIT: Pump
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