[tasmania]

How many watts of power is needed to raise the temperature every one degree F. in a oil that has a API Gravity of 1.01

John

[aldente]

Well, you do the math yourself. And while you're at it please calculate our remaining livespan, will you?

[tasmania]

Well, you do the math yourself. And while you're at it please calculate our remaining livespan, will you?

I wish I could calculate and increase the livespan but that is very difficult to do these days! !
On to the heavy oil which we have a problem with, am I correct in thinking that 0.40 kw/ lb/per 1 deg F. ? I want to heat the oil up to 250 deg F. therefore this would equal 100,000 watts, does anyone know if this is correct or not?

[aldente]

What happened to our picture?
Here an alternate one, hope that this speaks more than a thousand words. The answer to your question has to come from someone else.

[Dezakin]

One watt can heat up one hundred trillion barrels of oil to twenty trillion degrees. All you have to do is house it in a perfect reflecting container.

You're confusing power with energy.

[tasmania]

One watt can heat up one hundred trillion barrels of oil to twenty trillion degrees. All you have to do is house it in a perfect reflecting container.

You're confusing power with energy.

Ok but do you have any idea of how much energy will be required to make this oil 250 deg F. ?

[Dezakin]

Seeing it takes about 4 joules to heat up 1g of water by 1C, and water has a higher specific heat than oil, one might guess that it takes about 2 to 3 joules per degree centigrade per gram. Go use your internet to do some conversion and use a calculator at will.

Then you need to find losses for not being in a perfect thermos, and that depends on where you're heating the oil up.