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Ever seen an injector cut in half?
Re: Ever seen an injector cut in half?
If it is not live steam. its not worth it.
Re: Ever seen an injector cut in half?
Injectors are strange!
I KNOW how they work and have taught them in "steam school" many times. I can install them, troubleshoot them, and use them. I can prove they work (mathematically), but I look at them intuitively and think "That's shouldn't work!" How can you take steam at 100PSI, lift cold water at atmospheric pressure, and blow it back into a boiler against 100PSI pressure without any exhaust!
I KNOW how they work and have taught them in "steam school" many times. I can install them, troubleshoot them, and use them. I can prove they work (mathematically), but I look at them intuitively and think "That's shouldn't work!" How can you take steam at 100PSI, lift cold water at atmospheric pressure, and blow it back into a boiler against 100PSI pressure without any exhaust!
Re: Ever seen an injector cut in half?
From my cutaway the right side is the steam supply, bottom is water inlet, left is outlet. Ball is held by the vacuum created by the steam being condensed by the water coming in.
Steam is totally condensed so that only water exits the injector. The increase in mass raises the pressure above boiler pressure. If all the steam doesn't get condensed the ball doesn't seat and you get overflow.
The EE and Penberthy units work the same way but are more sophisticated and less picky.
Fred V
Pensacola, Fl.
Pensacola, Fl.
Re: Ever seen an injector cut in half?
So if you had a suitably small camera and light you could look up the overflow pipe and see a jet of water blasting across? That's pretty amazing physics
Re: Ever seen an injector cut in half?
Hi,
Fred beat me to it.
The left side is the pressure recovery cone and goes to the boiler feed valve. The right side is the steam cone and comes from the boiler. The bottom connection is for the water supply. The middle cone (in two parts) is called the combining cone. In the top center is a ball check ( the ball is missing in the picture). In particular, the discharge line must be free from sharp bends, large enough to offer no flow restriction and the boiler check valve must open easily and offer no restriction to the flow.
In operation, turn on the water supply first, then the steam. You may have to throttle the water supply to get the injector to "pick up." Until the injector picks up, water and steam run out of the overflow through the ball check because the pressure in the combining cone is higher than atmospheric. When the flow fills the combining cone, it pulls a vacuum and the ball check seals off the overflow. If the ball wasn't there, air would be pulled in and it would destroy the efficiency of the injector. Good injectors will lift water four to six inches.
Logically this thing can't work, but thermodynamics says it has to, so it does. My hat's off to the original French engineer who came up with the idea (he wanted to use it in a balloon). The simple explanation is that it works because all the steam is condensed into water and that's why warm water doesn't work since some of the steam doesn't condense. The velocity inside these things is considerably above the speed of sound.
Richard Trounce.
Fred beat me to it.
The left side is the pressure recovery cone and goes to the boiler feed valve. The right side is the steam cone and comes from the boiler. The bottom connection is for the water supply. The middle cone (in two parts) is called the combining cone. In the top center is a ball check ( the ball is missing in the picture). In particular, the discharge line must be free from sharp bends, large enough to offer no flow restriction and the boiler check valve must open easily and offer no restriction to the flow.
In operation, turn on the water supply first, then the steam. You may have to throttle the water supply to get the injector to "pick up." Until the injector picks up, water and steam run out of the overflow through the ball check because the pressure in the combining cone is higher than atmospheric. When the flow fills the combining cone, it pulls a vacuum and the ball check seals off the overflow. If the ball wasn't there, air would be pulled in and it would destroy the efficiency of the injector. Good injectors will lift water four to six inches.
Logically this thing can't work, but thermodynamics says it has to, so it does. My hat's off to the original French engineer who came up with the idea (he wanted to use it in a balloon). The simple explanation is that it works because all the steam is condensed into water and that's why warm water doesn't work since some of the steam doesn't condense. The velocity inside these things is considerably above the speed of sound.
Richard Trounce.
Re: Ever seen an injector cut in half?
interesting idea, yes you could see it. probably just look like a solid rod.
Fred V
Pensacola, Fl.
Pensacola, Fl.
Re: Ever seen an injector cut in half?
It's a mechanical flux capacitor.
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Is that what's inside the turbo encabulator? Injectors use the same principle. Here's a link:
https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag
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Re: Ever seen an injector cut in half?
Hypothetical question: If you took this injector, rotated it 90 degrees to the right (or left), would it still work?AnthonyDuarte wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 7:37 pm Don't worry, no good injectors were harmed in the making of this cross section! This Small Scale injector body (#045) had a tumble and was deemed unusable.
I brought this "half sized" injector with me to Riverside and people seemed to really enjoy looking at it, so here it is for you to enjoy as well. A lot of work goes into these little buggers. If anything they're more difficult to make than the Standard injector.
-Anthony
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Dan Watson
Chattanooga, TN
Chattanooga, TN
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Can't wait to have a crack at making an injector - steam fittings fascinate me
Re: Ever seen an injector cut in half?
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~RN
No, because it is cut in half.Hypothetical question: If you took this injector, rotated it 90 degrees to the right (or left), would it still work?
~RN