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Attemperator-deaerator condenser

  • US 4,391,101 A
  • Filed: 04/01/1981
  • Issued: 07/05/1983
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/01/1981
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In an improved power plant of the type having a steam generator providing steam to a steam turbine, said steam turbine exhausting into a condenser for condensing exhaust steam into feedwater for the steam generator;

  • means for pumping feedwater from the condenser to the steam generator, said steam generator connected to said steam turbine and condenser through a main steam header and a bypass line respectively; and

    , wherein the improvement comprises;

    a recirculation loop for recirculating a portion of said feedwater into the condenser;

    means for heating said feedwater upstream from said condenser whereby said feedwater is slightly above saturation temperature; and

    ,nozzle means for delivering said heated feedwater into said condenser whereby flashing is effected for deaeration purposes.

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