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Steam has been an important tool in years of human invention and has been used to power engines or cook food like vegetables or rice. So let's convert the T's to absolute tempratures in Kelvin: 373 K and 811 K. We expect a V ratio of 811/373= 2.2.
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1-X Xo / / / 0. Why does the volume go up times 1700 when the liquid water boils to vapor at 212°F? Steam is the result of a liquid changing to a gas. Generally, the expansion of water into steam depends greatly on temperature and atmospheric pressure. Detailed answers to any questions you might have
One pound of steam condenses back to one pound of liquid water.
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In this stage you have the energy that is used to heat the liquid water up to $\mathrm{100~^\circ C}$ but the water is still liquid and you need steam water. X O o l?1 4<-o o o CO — X; "t-G a' '• 3-X <4f <-< i-i 1o '!
Formulas of computation of pressure loss on the piping. It's much easier to stick to a blob of other molecules than to stick to just one or two, so the choice is all or nothing: either the molecules form a big liquid blob or a free gas, not something in between. This means that under ideal conditions, 1 part of liquid water expands to 1700 times the volume as steam when boiled. Mollier diagrams included. When they aren't too hot, they tend to stick to each other. 1932 FORMULA BASE LINE B>S. Includes 50+ different calculations. Water vapor at atmospheric pressure in this temperature range is close to being an ideal gas, for which V=NkT/p, where N is the number of molecules, k is a constant, T is the absolute temperature, and p is the pressure.