vansig wrote:
What’s the creep temperature for a generic stainless steel?
this 1972 westinghouse patent seems like a good place to compare different steels: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3635769.html
interestingly,
operating temperature for the hot side of the heat engine in a CANDU fission reactor is said to be 290 °C. That leads to ~33% efficiency.
— http://www.wordiq.com/definition/CANDU_reactor
Apparently the biggest problem with using steam is boiler system corrosion. — http://www.gewater.com/handbook/boiler_water_systems/ch_11_preboiler.jsp
Do we really need to boil the working fluid to get high efficiency?
