CF water cooker


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MarcelvanH
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Hey guys,

Thanks for having me on this forum. I am new in the world of composites and want to test an idea with you experts I have been walking with for quite some time.

In the outdoor world everybody is wanting to go lighter and lighter. I wonder if I can make a simple pot for cooking water. Boiling temperature of water is of course 100C and given the thin layer of CF and the conductive properties of CF I would think the pot outside surface will not get any hotter than 100C. I read that CF can take pretty much any temperature and that the limiting factor would be the resin. However a temperature resistant resin could do the trick? 

I am curious on your thoughts on my idea. But please, if you want to react, please give me some proper feedback. Thanks!

PS: I am not a native English speaker so please excuse me for any spelling errors.

Marcel
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The problem with making a waterboiler out of CF, is not that it can not handle the temperatures of boiling water... That part is easy.. you can get 180 deg. C.  stable Resin from EC ..And it works fine, I use it for exhaust parts (at the "coolest end....Cool )


The problem is the heat source!!!

Most camping equipment heat sources are small propane/butane burners (most common), petrol or petroleum/kerosene burners, fuel tablets or a camp fire...

For use on a camp fire, a CF "cooking pot" will work fine, as long as you ensure that it has water in it !!  Evaportion at 100 deg. C. boiling waer removes huge amounts of heat energy, this will easily keep the outside of a CF "pot" intact... but only as long as there is water to evaporate.
(North American indians used to make cooking pots from Birch Bark, they would hold up for a small number of cookings, until the boiling water eventually dissolved the material from the inside.)

The problem comes when you accidentally leave the pot, and it boils empty... then it will be ruined very quickly ... an Aluminium pot will survive a lot longer, but you can not melt a titanium pot, no matter what "standard" outdoor heat source you use... it will quite literally survive being left to glow yellow-hot on the burner... then you let it cool, rinse it off, and go back to cooking ...
When you're really "out in the wild" that kind of security can save your life!!
(I am extremely satisfied with my Jetboil Sol Ti... it has only one problem... the heat exchanger fins that make it so quick, are made from soft aluminium, and they WILL melt in a flash, if it boils dry)
I plan to make a CF "protection can" for it, that can double as a cold water pot. ..Smile

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