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Steam Resonator design session v1: best candidate (0.62kg/hr, 0% non-ohmic)

Sweep — base grid

Score 0.386 — 0.623 kg/hr steam, 0.0% of the heat non-ohmic

Cavity — 2 × coaxial T-304, rod 12.00mm in 19.04mm ID, 400mm active (gap 3.52mm, 137.2 mL water)
Drive — 1200V, 0.010 MHz sequential switchover, 40% phase duty, 10% dead-time
Amp restrict — pickup 10Ω + choke 500Ω resistive wire → leakage 643.57 mA
Field — ⟨E⟩ 331.9 kV/m, establishes to 98% in the on-time (τ_bulk 10008 ns)
Debye — ε'' = 8.87e-6 at 0.010 MHz; water relaxes at 56.9 GHz → running at 1.76e-5% of the loss peak
Double layer — FROZEN OUT (charges 0.02% per phase, τ_EDL 203253.9 µs) — this is the amp restriction working

Heat budget

dielectric relaxation 2.983e-5 W   ← Stan's "particle impact"
double-layer cycling  2.244e+2 W   ← also amp flow
ohmic leakage         2.244e+2 W   ← the amp flow to restrict
= cavity heat         4.488e+2 W  (0.0% non-ohmic)
VIC resistive loss    1.690e+2 W
electrical input      6.178e+2 W  → thermal η 72.6%

Yield — 1.732e-1 g/s = 0.623 kg/hr, 1.009 g/Wh

Basis

Confidence: 0.70
Method: steam-debye-v1
Recorded: 25 Aug 2026
Published: 30 Aug 2026
Device: Steam Resonator
Component: resonant-cavity
Source Ref: design session v1
Notebook Id: 1664

design-loop steam-resonator dielectric-heating