Question:
How does a cool steam vaporizor work? Steam is water beyond hot but I can feel and see cool steam from a...?
onecharliecat
2007-02-16 21:44:14 UTC
cool steam vaporizor in my home. How is that?
Nine answers:
PoppaJ
2007-02-16 22:05:00 UTC
Well, a cool vaporizer does not make steam. It makes a pretty course vapor. The ones I have seen use a spinning disk to sling water against a circle of pates surrounding the spinning disk. The water slung against the plates is broken up into droplets. The droplets are much larger than the water droplets in fog or clouds. That's why I call it a course water vapor.

. Water vapor is not steam. Steam is water dispersed into individual molecules in a gaseous state. Water vapor is tiny droplets, each of which contains hundreds to millions of molecules. If you can see it, it is not steam.
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2016-10-31 18:41:28 UTC
Cool Steam
three quarterman
2007-02-17 00:46:58 UTC
t's not steam if it cool, its condensed water like when you exhale on a cold dry day 'something like "seeing your breathhghhhhh. More like the smoke you see coming out of the air vents on an airliner on a hot humid day.The vaporizer is putting out air which has dew point lower than the ambient temperature in the room It is making fog or clouds not cool steam the air becomes saturated with water and condenses when air temp falls below the dew point or cool high dew point air mergeswith warmer low dew point air. warm humid air forms clouds as the air cools as it rises@about three degrees perthousand feet. The dew point is the temperatureat which the air can hold no more wate.It is then considered saturatedCool low pressure air hold moreH2Othan warm high pressure air by volumn. As temperatureof the air drops to the dewpoint water vapor, or cool steam or clouds, is and are formed. If the steam is trullry cool to the touch. All that said, I admit Idon't know but i believe if the vaporizer is cooling the ai r n to the dew point of the ambient conditionsrather than it is heating the air to make hold more water and then exhausting it inthe cooler room at a temp higher than the roomdewpoint and then having vapour form when the aircoolsoto the dewpoint. How it actually works was probably decided on a cost analysis. The vaporizer develops steam for the warm mode utilizing a small reservior of water and I presume a heating element Iam thinking the water is heated to increase the humidity of the air in the chamber. The relative coolness of theoom is cool enough to lowerr thehumidty air down to the dewpoint, forming water vapor or cool steam.Notyetmentioned is the effect of air pressure on the water transformation. A sudden decreasein airpressure will cause water in air to vaporize. If the air isforced through a convergentgent duct the the speed of the air will increase which will cause the airpressure to decrease, as stated in Bernoli's law pressue will rise which will allowthe humidity potential to icreasebecause lowpressure air holds more H2O than high pressure air. this results in a lower dewpoint and transformation to vapor usingh less energy, Much less thanthat needed to creat all the b.t.us.that would be needed to provide real steam from the existing heating element and water vapor.from an additionalcooling sytem to bring the air to saturationthe same physical piece of equipment. Ibelieve the air is heated to increase is humidity potential ,in the cool steam mode, and further heatedto poduce steam in the vaporizer mode,then the warm humid air is forced through a duct that increases speed of the dicharge air therebye drecreasing the airpressure consequently humidity potential is increased therefore,watervapor in the form of steamor your cool steam can beproduceduced using thetheleast amount of energy to achieve the bothgoals of both using one appliance. Sounds good We'll see
cookiemonster2820
2007-02-16 21:47:47 UTC
The vaporizor agitates the water, vibrates it very fast and it mist
Mr.Jones
2007-02-16 21:48:28 UTC
I think that It has cold water and a very small amount of very hot water is shot up through the center causing steam.
anonymous
2007-02-16 21:47:46 UTC
It is a magical power that comes from a spell cast on each device.
arubaseabreeze
2007-02-16 21:51:41 UTC
Its not steam. Its vapor.
nebben76
2007-02-16 21:47:14 UTC
very fine particles of water, like hair spray
luker
2007-02-16 21:47:38 UTC
Its all about the nebulizer.


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