As I know, the sodium is used for heat transfer for some
power plant nuclear reactors also?!...
73,
Traian
Vic Rosenthal wrote:
> CLIVE COLLINS wrote:
>
> > Their answer after a
> > lot of research was to make the exhaust valve stem hollow and fill it
> > with Sodium with significantly good results.
>
> Sodium valves were used in a lot of internal combustion engines, not
> just Nortons! The idea is that the liquid sodium inside the valve stem
> would actually flow, thus transferring heat by convection away from the
> valve face and through the valve guide to the cylinder head. In the
> case of coils, there's no obvious analogue for the cylinder head to
> dissipate heat.
>
> --
> 73,
> Vic, K2VCO
> Fresno CA
> http://www.qsl.net/k2vco
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