[tasmania]

How many watts of power is needed to raise the temperature every one degree F. in a oil that has a API Gravity of 1.01

John

[aldente]

Well, you do the math yourself. And while you're at it please calculate our remaining livespan, will you?

[tasmania]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('albente', 'W')ell, you do the math yourself. And while you're at it please calculate our remaining livespan, will you?

[aldente]

What happened to our picture?
Here an alternate one, hope that this speaks more than a thousand words. The answer to your question has to come from someone else.

[Dezakin]

One watt can heat up one hundred trillion barrels of oil to twenty trillion degrees. All you have to do is house it in a perfect reflecting container.

You're confusing power with energy.

[tasmania]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', 'O')ne watt can heat up one hundred trillion barrels of oil to twenty trillion degrees. All you have to do is house it in a perfect reflecting container.

You're confusing power with energy.

[Dezakin]

Seeing it takes about 4 joules to heat up 1g of water by 1C, and water has a higher specific heat than oil, one might guess that it takes about 2 to 3 joules per degree centigrade per gram. Go use your internet to do some conversion and use a calculator at will.

Then you need to find losses for not being in a perfect thermos, and that depends on where you're heating the oil up.