Thank you all so much for your suggestions.
zdas04, I believe your recommendation will bound the problem in a "quick" way. That is what I am going for first.
Thanks!
No. this is an actual real life problem. I have just tried to simplify as best as I can to be able to do a "hand calc"
I have looked in my old texts to see if there was a homework problem of this nature, but no luck.
Won't there be a steam flash when the water first hits the metal? That will last a certain period of time, right? I picture dropping water onto a hot/dry pan on your stove.
djack - I get what you are saying about when the vessel fills with saturated water, but what about the time before?
I...
I am assuming that the vessel is sealed. The water is pumped, and I know that there is a point where the pressure of the steam will be greater than that of water coming in, but I would like to neglect that for now.
The scale of things are more on the order of a hockey puck in a 55gal drum -...
I have a "simple" problem that I am having trouble with. I have simplified the problem so I can do a bounding calculation.
I have a large, insulated vessel at initially empty (of water) at ambient temperature and pressure. inside the vessel is a small, initially very hot(almost melting point)...
Thank you all again.
I have gone back to look at he prior engineers analysis and he did not include the hydrogen that is generated from the reaction of water with molten Ti.
So back to the "original" question....even with the hydrogen disassociation from the metal, would this explosion still...
Good Afternoon,
I am looking for any references that I can use to support that the pressure developed in a steam explosion (water on a molten metal pool) does not create the overpressure which develops when a true explosive is detonated.
A am trying to develop pressure mitigation hardware...
