Rossi Lugano/early demo's revisited. (technical)

Nice work !

From which MFMP test did you use the Ravi data ?

The 700 Watt or 900 Watt run ?

The minimum temperature set for the color display was somewhat high in the MFMP Ravi file and as such the cap temperatures where a flat profile showing the minimum set temperature.

Don't know if that can be adjusted afterwards so that the real temperatures show up.

As I stated in an earlier post the cooler cap temperatures for the MFMP run can possibly be explained by the Lugano device having its heater coil windings continue under the end caps.

Since most issues for a calculation are now known, I could in the future do two FEM simulations. One without the heater coil extending under the end caps and one with extended heater coils.

Maybe from the resultsing temperature profiles we can then determine what is the most likely case.

Concerning the gaps, it does depends on what emissivity was set for the background ?

Lugano dummy run with supposed Optris emissivity error recalculated

In the attached Excel spreadsheet the total radiated and convective power of the Lugano test for the situation in which the Lugano testers would have used broadband instead of in-band emissivities on the Optris is calculated.

Using broadband emissivities instead of Optis in band emissivities leads to the measured temperatures to be inflated and it has been assumed by many that these inflated temperatures are the reason for the positive COP values reported in the Lugano report.

Since we have found in this forum thread some errors with respect to how radiative and convective powers have to be calulated, we can now apply the correct calculation methods to the Lugano data.

We have done this already for the situation where we assume that the temperatures where measured correctly and have found that in that case the applied power is almost in agreement with the calculated radiative and convective power.

In the included Excel spreadsheet to this post we do the same calculation for the case where the Lugano testers would have used broadband instead of in band emissivities when measuring temperatures with the Optris thermal camera.

Recalculated supposed inflated temperatures due to using broadband instead of in band emissivities where imported from the spreadsheet with the recalculated temperatures (see post # 413 ) and incorporated as a separate page in the Excel file.

The result of the recalculation is that the total convective and radiated power is 414.95 Watt, a difference of -13.50 % with respect to the applied electrical power.

This difference of -13.50 % compared to the a difference of 1.62 % when we assume that the the temperatures where not inflated is another indication that the reported temperatures of the Lugano dummy run where likely correct.

Quote from LDM

Lugano dummy run with supposed Optris emissivity error recalculated

In the attached Excel spreadsheet the total radiated and convective power of the Lugano test for the situation in which the Lugano testers would have used broadband instead of in-band emissivities on the Optris is calculated.

Using broadband emissivities instead of Optis in band emissivities leads to the measured temperatures to be inflated and it has been assumed by many that these inflated temperatures are the reason for the positive COP values reported in the Lugano report.

Since we have found in this forum thread some errors with respect to how radiative and convective powers have to be calulated, we can now apply the correct calculation methods to the Lugano data.

We have done this already for the situation where we assume that the temperatures where measured correctly and have found that in that case the applied power is almost in agreement with the calculated radiative and convective power.

In the included Excel spreadsheet to this post we do the same calculation for the case where the Lugano testers would have used broadband instead of in band emissivities when measuring temperatures with the Optris thermal camera.

Recalculated supposed inflated temperatures due to using broadband instead of in band emissivities where imported from the spreadsheet with the recalculated temperatures (see post # 413 ) and incorporated as a separate page in the Excel file.

The result of the recalculation is that the total convective and radiated power is 414.95 Watt, a difference of -13.50 % with respect to the applied electrical power.

This difference of -13.50 % compared to the a difference of 1.62 % when we assume that the the temperatures where not inflated is another indication that the reported temperatures of the Lugano dummy run where likely correct.

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The report says the dummy run used thermocouples for temperature (which were not used for the active runs).

You just can't make this stuff up!

THHuxleynew

The report says the dummy run used thermocouples for temperature (which were not used for the active runs).

You just can't make this stuff up!

Sure they used thermocouples in preparation of the dummy run.

(Actual one, the one as they stated which was normally used for the ambient temperature measurement)

But the actual temperature measurements during the dummy where done by the Optris Camera.

However they used the ambient thermocouple to compare the measured temperature by the Optris of a reference dot on a rod with that of the thermocouple and noted that they where in close agreement.

Then they adjusted the emissivity of the Optris to give for the rod the same reading and this should have given them for that temperature the right emissivity setting of the Optris for the type of alumina used for the rods(Which by the other density of the alumina rods could have been a little bit off)

Having done so I would find it very strange that in that situation, when they saw that the emissivity setting they found differed very much from the broadband emissivity that they would have used during the dummy run broadband emissivities on the Optris for the ribbed area.

And the recalculation showed that there is a large likelyhood that indeed they used the correct emissivities.

So I can't agree with you that I am making stuff up.

This because "the stuff" is the outcome of calculations and simulations, not something I dream up.

Reference about the application of thermocouples in the Lugano report is given below :

Page 3

A thermocouple probe, inserted into one of the caps, allows the control system to manage power supply to the resistors by measuring the internal temperature of the reactor.

This is the internal thermocouplw which is used for temperature control

It has not to do anything with measuring surface temperatures.

Page 4

The IR cameras, on the other hand, were focused on circular tabs of adhesive material of certified emissivity (henceforth referred to as “dots”). The relevant readings were compared to those obtained from a thermocouple used to measure ambient temperature, and were found to be consistent with the latter, the differences being < 1°C

Here is stated that they used a thermocouple to verify that the measured temperatures by the Optris from the thermal dots was in agreement with a thermocouple which normally was used for reading the ambient temperature.

Page 7

We also found that the ridges made thermal contact with any thermocouple probe placed on the outer surface of the reactor extremely critical, making any direct temperature measurement with the required precision impossible

Here is stated that they found that measuring of the ridges with a thermocouple was very critical and would make direct temperature measurement impossible.

As such they used the Optris for indirect measurement.

Quote from Paradigmnoia

So now we reach the point where we see in the report that the emissivity curve, shown in Plot 1, was “adapted” to the type of alumina used, after comparing the results of the 0.95 emissivity Kapton “dots” (maximum temperature 380 C, tested on the Rods, since they would not stick to the actual reactor). Whatever that means, since there is no other mention of this in the report, nor any plot that shows this emissivity curve adaptation.

The text in the report is :

We therefore took the same emissivity trend found in the literature as reference; but, by applying emissivity reference dots along the rods, we were able to adapt that curve to this specific type of alumina, by directly measuring local emissivity in places close to the reference dots (Figure 7).

They talk about an emissivity trend found in literature they used as reference, but did not state what kind of trend they referred to.

Was it the broadband emissivity trend of Alumina they referred to or the in band emissivity trend for alumina ?

As usual the report is very vague about this and as such makes it for the reader of the report indeed another controversial point.

So you are right that we don't know what it means.

Besides the above a question for you.

If I take a horizental temperature profile from a MFMP dogbone thermal test 2, then what emissivity was used to measure those temperatures.

My guess is that it is 1.

I am almost sure you can tell me what it was.

You just can't make this stuff up!

...Is a British idiom implying something is ridiculous, not that you are personally making things up...

Quote from Zeus46

You just can't make this stuff up!

...Is a British idiom implying something is ridiculous, not that you are personally making things up...

Thanks for explaining the underlying meaning !

I took this horizental profile from the Ravi 500W file

And think indeed that this is a profile measured with an in band Optris emissivity setting of 1

Your picture with the different sections as in Lugano is nice and gives the average section temperatures

However when I want tot create my own sections such as in your picture above then the program refuses and states that it can not connect to the camera.

So I think I need to spend some time on the manual.

But I could save some time if you could supply the average section temperatures for each section for the 500 Watt situation.

That because I want to calculate the total convective and radiated power for the 500 W case and see if after all the calculation updates, there is still more convective and radiated power then the aupplied power of 500 Watt.

Sure they used thermocouples in preparation of the dummy run.

(Actual one, the one as they stated which was normally used for the ambient temperature measurement)

But the actual temperature measurements during the dummy where done by the Optris Camera.

However they used the ambient thermocouple to compare the measured temperature by the Optris of a reference dot on a rod with that of the thermocouple and noted that they where in close agreement.

Then they adjusted the emissivity of the Optris to give for the rod the same reading and this should have given them for that temperature the right emissivity setting of the Optris for the type of alumina used for the rods(Which by the other density of the alumina rods could have been a little bit off)

Having done so I would find it very strange that in that situation, when they saw that the emissivity setting they found differed very much from the broadband emissivity that they would have used during the dummy run broadband emissivities on the Optris for the ribbed area.

And the recalculation showed that there is a large likelyhood that indeed they used the correct emissivities.

So I can't agree with you that I am making stuff up.

This because "the stuff" is the outcome of calculations and simulations, not something I dream up.

I'm not saying you are making stuff up.

I'm saying the long list of experimental bad practice from Lugano is so extravagant that you could not make it up.

THHuxleynew

'm not saying you are making stuff up.

That's what Zeus46 already explained.

I think I need to fly over to Liverpool to visit family and upgrade my understanding of the English language. (Have already an invitation)

I'm saying the long list of experimental bad practice from Lugano is so extravagant that you could not make it up.

I agree that they where very sloppy.

Don't know if that was in general the case or that they rushed out their report too fast and made a lot of errors in it.

However the calculation of the convective and radiated power matches up with the applied power.

Don't know if that is that is just coincidence or not.

On the other hand in earlier FEM simulations of the MFMP dogbone I got temperatures already close to the reported ones in the Lugano report.

That's why I with the aquired knowledge want to recalculate the convective and radiated power of their 500W run and maybe after that a new FEM simulation.

Maybe it will tell us somewhat more.