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In a boiler you vaporize some liquid water at 100 kPa flowing at 1 m/*. What is the velocity of the saturated vapor at 100 kPa if the pipe size is the same? Can the flow then be constant P?

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The continuity equation with average values is written

To accelerate the flow up to that speed you need a large force ( ∆PA ) so a large pressure drop is needed.

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