Question by Mr Macroni: How to convert steam back to water quickly?
I am working on a green source energy project.A solar powered steam generator.I need some idea for how to cool the steam back to water quickly? and turn the water back to the steamer again.That way i don’t have to refill the steamer with water all the time.Any idea?
Somebody is not getting it.Here is how.
Water + solar heated lens ->steam
Steam->generator
Used steam ->water
water->Lens steamer
Hope this help
Best answer:
Answer by Saint
the stuff they put in refrigerators and freezers, i don’t think its freon anymore but whatever it is haha, and to turn it back, just hook up a pipe from the steam end through the freon and back to the water end.
What do you think? Answer below!
3 Responses
Let’s assume that you are using groundwater as your source. One way to do this is to pump the ground water through a condenser that receives the heater water from the boiler. The hot water from the boiler preheats the cooler ground water before it enters the boiler, and the cooler water that has already been through the boiler and the condenser is discharged into the environment or used for other purposes.
Your idea is wasting energy to begin with. Why turn steam back to water in the first place? You want to waste more energy converting it back to steam again? You’re going to lose water anyway! The water will condense on its own on its trip back to the solar boiler. You are defeating your purpose. Ideally, you could use a steam trap and then insulate the condensate pipe back to the solar boiler so it didn’t cool any further. This would make it easier to turn it back to steam because its already pre-heated.
It depends on the exhaust pressure of the generator turbine but either a water cooled or air cooled heat exchanger is the only way to do it. You will also need a pump to then pump the water back to the boiler (steamer).
If you are trying to be serious then direct conversion of solar power to electricity is a better and cheaper way to do it.