What are the concerns/safety of an unfired >100C vessel
Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2017 1:12 am
One of the things that I didn't expect from steaming in chautauqua with nyitra was refinding my love of kayaking. I had this interesting idea ... what if I could have a "scout" boat in the form of a steam powered kayak with no boiler, but a vessel to hold some water from Nyitra's boiler. Enough to run a small model engine for say - up to 10 minutes?
What are the engineering concerns to this? Could a pipe say 3+ inches in pipe size be schedule 40 be used? I'd like to keep it as simple as possible. Is there a reason that only one connection couldn't be used using a gravity feed and sanitary ss steam hose fittings? Do I really need a sight glass - it's going to be used until there is no more pressure? Do I need a pressure relief device - it's not going to gain any heat?
-CB
What are the engineering concerns to this? Could a pipe say 3+ inches in pipe size be schedule 40 be used? I'd like to keep it as simple as possible. Is there a reason that only one connection couldn't be used using a gravity feed and sanitary ss steam hose fittings? Do I really need a sight glass - it's going to be used until there is no more pressure? Do I need a pressure relief device - it's not going to gain any heat?
-CB