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    A surface condenser is a water-cooled shell and tube heat exchanger installed to condense exhaust steam from a steam turbine in thermal power stations...
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    chemistry, a condenser is laboratory apparatus used to condense vapors – that is, turn them into liquids – by cooling them down. Condensers are routinely...
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    In systems involving heat transfer, a condenser is a heat exchanger used to condense a gaseous substance into a liquid state through cooling. In doing...
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  • locomotive Jet condenser Surface condenser Condensers for collecting atmospheric moisture: Air well (condenser) Atmospheric water generator Condenser (optics)...
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    Surface condenser is the most common type of condenser where it includes a water supply device. Figure 5 below displays a two-pass surface condenser....
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    bottom of the condenser. The adjacent image is a diagram of a typical surface condenser. For best efficiency, the temperature in the condenser must be kept...
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    Liquefaction of gases Phase diagram Phase transition Retrograde condensation Surface condenser IUPAC, Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book")...
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    maintaining a vacuum to improve both efficiency and power. Unlike the surface condenser often used on a steam turbine or marine steam engine, the condensing...
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    tube and out the other. Surface condensers in power plants are often 1-pass straight-tube heat exchangers (see surface condenser for diagram). Two and four...
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    electrical generator. The low-pressure exhaust from the turbine enters a steam condenser where it is cooled to produce hot condensate which is recycled to the...
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    significantly to the yield. If Zibold's condenser worked at all, this was probably due to fact that a few stones near the surface of the mound were able to lose...
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    microphone, which uses a coil of wire suspended in a magnetic field; the condenser microphone, which uses the vibrating diaphragm as a capacitor plate; and...
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  • The Liebig condenser (/ˈliːbɪɡ/, LEE-big) or straight condenser is a piece of laboratory equipment, specifically a condenser consisting of a straight...
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    obtained. Steam engines in stationary power plants use surface condensers as a cold sink. The condensers are cooled by water flow from oceans, rivers, lakes...
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  • inner surface of copper alloy tubes to increase corrosion resistance. For certain applications, the film is composed of iron. In power plant condensers, duplex...
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    nozzle Diffusion pump Giovanni Battista Venturi Gustaf de Laval Nozzle Surface condenser Venturi effect Perry, R. H.; Green, D. W., eds. (2007). Perry's Chemical...
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  • supplying the steam turbine and generator, Doosan Škoda will supply the surface condenser, four district water heaters, bypass valves and other auxiliaries...
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    Technological developments in the early 1830s—including the invention of the surface condenser, which allowed boilers to run on salt water without stopping to be...
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    charges on two closely spaced surfaces that are insulated from each other. The capacitor was originally known as the condenser, a term still encountered in...
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    the turbine, which was situated aft. From there it passed into a surface condenser, to increase the efficiency of the turbine and so that the steam could...
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    career the most successful and enduring of his inventions was the surface condenser, which allowed a steamer to recover fresh water for its boilers while...
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  • Claude cycle designs used a surface condenser since their performance was well understood. However, direct contact condensers offer significant disadvantages...
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    reached only if the turbine exhausts into a near vacuum, generated by a surface condenser. These devices are heavy and cumbersome. Turbines can rotate in only...
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  • 9-inch stroke, inclined, direct-acting steam engine, fitted with a surface condenser. Steam was supplied by four boilers: two main boilers of the horizontal...
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    usually been condensing engines. By 1865, the use of an improved surface condenser permitted the use of fresh water feed, as the additional feedwater...
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    the gas turbines cooling jacket which required the addition of a surface condenser package. The two Holzwarth gas turbines built by Brown Boveri after...
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    laundry operations such as those of hospitals. Just as in a tumble dryer, condenser or condensation dryers pass heated air through the load. However, instead...
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    rest of the 19th century. Notable developments include the steam surface condenser, which eliminated the use of sea water in the ship's boilers. This...
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  • equipment such as Heat Exchangers, Pressure vessels, Reactors, Columns, Surface condensers, HP/LP Heaters, and Boiler components. GEA-BGR Energy Systems Ltd...
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    technological developments followed, including the invention of the surface condenser, which allowed boilers to run on purified water rather than salt water...
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