Title :
Anomalous heat production by cavitation
Author :
Stringham, Roger
Author_Institution :
First Gate Energies, Mountain View, CA, USA
Abstract :
The 40 KHz piezo reactor input exposes the 5×5×.01 cm 3 foils to a controlled pulsed transient cavitation bubble, TCB, process with a peak acoustic input of one watt/cm3. These TCBs are considered micro plasma accelerators. During its pseudo-adiabatic collapse a bubble jet is formed which accelerates a dense coherent plasma into a target foil. The pulse duration of the D + injected into the foil lattice during an acoustic cycle is a few pico seconds. In the target foil anomalous heat, Q(x), is formed and produces as much as 15 watts over the 10 watt acoustic input. Calorimetric measurements of Q(x) use Newton´s Law of Cooling where watts in equals watts out
Keywords :
bubbles; cavitation; heat transfer; plasma jets; plasma production; plasma transport processes; plasma-wall interactions; 40 kHz; acoustic cycle; anomalous heat; anomalous heat production; bubble jet; calorimetric measurements; cavitation; controlled pulsed transient cavitation bubble; dense coherent plasma; micro plasma accelerators; peak acoustic input; piezo reactor input; pseudo-adiabatic collapse; pulse duration; target foil; Acoustic measurements; Acoustic pulses; Calibration; Inductors; Plasma accelerators; Plasma density; Plasma measurements; Plasma temperature; Production; Temperature measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Ultrasonics Symposium, 1998. Proceedings., 1998 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Sendai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4095-7
DOI :
10.1109/ULTSYM.1998.765029
