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Superheated steam, steam heated to a temperature higher than the boiling point corresponding to its pressure. It can not exist in contact with water, nor contain water, and resembles a perfect gas; called also surcharged steam, anhydrous steam, and steam gas.

Steam and Superheated Steam

This demonstration illustrates the characteristics of steam under two different temperature conditions. Initially, water is simply boiled in a flask and allowed to pass through a coil of copper tubing. When a beaker is brought near the end of the tubing, the water condenses to liquid in the beaker. If a match is placed into the steam coming out of the copper tube, nothing happens. If a piece of steel wool is placed into the stream there is no observable change in the steel wool.

Two burners are ignited below the copper coil. These burners heat the steam to a very high temperature. The steam still condenses to liquid water in a beaker. A match placed into the superheated steam ignites. When steel wool is placed in the superheated steam, the steel wool glows brightly and reacts with the steam. Reaction with superheated steam can cause metal pipes in electric power plants to corrode and wear out.

(When very hot steam is used, the steam will react readily with iron and cause the tubes and other components of the power plant to form iron oxide. This places an upper limit on the temperature of the steam, which also limits the efficiency of the power plant.)

In an electric power generating plant, steam is used to turn turbines that generate electricity. The hotter the highest temperature of the steam is, the more efficient the plant is. When very hot steam is used, the steam will react readily with iron and cause the tubes and other components of the power plant to form iron oxide. This places an upper limit on the temperature of the steam, which also limits the efficiency of the power plant.

Thanks for watching.

Be safe with your experiments.

Regards, sirHOAX

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  • why not use ceramics and convert iron to h2 for a car?

  • @josephdupont we honestly need to find the understanding behind inner workings of the transition from regular steam to super heated in order to address any future build/one-offs of this type of technology. steam superheated w/catalyst being iron is plausible. yes you are correct. ceramics are the future, that is for sure. ceramic engines is NASA spec technology. why not have it in your car? questions to be answered.

  • what are those devices at the beginning of your video? Are these small pressure vessels or something like that - steam injectors or something of that nature?

  • Devices for creating super-heated-steam.

  • fantastic sirhoax can we say water gas???

  • Yes Water Gas is correct. :=)

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  • This is exactly what happens in Paul Pantones Geet system. Think about it,steam generated in the bubbler passes into the reaction chamber. The reaction chamber is heated by the exhaust as the steam becomes super heated,it reacts with the steel and metal bar in the inner reactor causing it to oxidise. The steam now stripped of oxygen becomes Hydrogen gas which boosts the volatility of the low quality fuel in the bubbler,that is how he could run the engine on crude,sump oil or just about anything.

  • What text to speech engine are you using?

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  • well said... nice VOICE !!!

  • ha, nice

  • We are going to be testing this theory on a Joe Pipe very soon.

    What we hope to accomplish is starting the Pipe with a Hydrocarbon Fuel and then heating a coil to super heat steam. Take the Steam (Now Hydroxy) and feed it to the Burn. We feel it maybe able to sustain a level 3 to maybe Level 5 Endothermic burn with little to no Hydrocarbon fuel to assist the burn! Wish us luck. If it works, the possibilities are endless Ron

  • Im thinking a wood stove with refractory liners that allow 1000 degree plus temperatures would also be creating this steam state which is why the burners of wood furnaces tend to corrode out quickly and require replacement or extreme high temp materials.

    But If a rocket draft stove with steam injection and high temp materials were designed, intentionally, so that the hydrogen fire were available for clean burning high heat output...wow, very powerful heater. Totally clean...

  • Im seeing microwave heatind causing water to superheat and explode or enter plasma states in several videos. And yes, steam reformation and the syngas coal and garbage plasma incinerators use this high temp water state, but this explanation details the water physics the best Ive seen. Also interesting is the Wood-gas generator process which benefits from water injection where the carbon absorbs the Oxygen leaving the hydrogen to be used as engine fuel or heating gas...

    Im

  • Hey, I found the steam generators at the beginning of the video - manufactured by MHI, Inc. in Cincinnati Ohio...

    They state that the steam created is superheated without the use of a pressure chamber - sounds pretty cool, compact and probably a lot safer due to no pressure vessel (800°C Steam achievable!) Nice.

  • ceramic turbine..... um yah.....

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