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Steam Resonator design session v2: best candidate (28.20kg/hr, 0% non-ohmic)

Sweep — Climb ε'' off the floor by sweeping switch_hz up decades to 100 MHz while cutting series R (pickup/choke) so τ_bulk shortens enough to establish the field within the on-time — trading amp-restriction against dielectric bandwidth to find where non-ohmic fraction actually rises.

Score 0.501 — 28.198 kg/hr steam, 0.0% of the heat non-ohmic

Cavity — 1 × coaxial T-304, rod 6.35mm in 13.39mm ID, 100mm active (gap 3.52mm, 10.9 mL water)
Drive — 1200V, 1.000 MHz sequential switchover, 40% phase duty, 10% dead-time
Amp restrict — pickup 1Ω + choke 5Ω resistive wire → leakage 24036.93 mA
Field — ⟨E⟩ 333.5 kV/m, establishes to 100% in the on-time (τ_bulk 21 ns)
Debye — ε'' = 8.87e-4 at 1.000 MHz; water relaxes at 56.9 GHz → running at 1.76e-3% of the loss peak
Double layer — FROZEN OUT (charges 0.00% per phase, τ_EDL 8900.7 µs) — this is the amp restriction working

Heat budget

dielectric relaxation 2.395e-2 W   ← Stan's "particle impact"
double-layer cycling  1.015e+4 W   ← also amp flow
ohmic leakage         1.015e+4 W   ← the amp flow to restrict
= cavity heat         2.030e+4 W  (0.0% non-ohmic)
VIC resistive loss    2.773e+3 W
electrical input      2.308e+4 W  → thermal η 88.0%

Yield — 7.833e+0 g/s = 28.198 kg/hr, 1.222 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 v2
Notebook Id: 1666

design-loop steam-resonator dielectric-heating