surface condenser
a device condensing steam or vapor by passing it over a cool surface.
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How to use surface condenser in a sentence
This, in practical words, is the surface condenser by which the used steam is returned to the boiler in the form of water.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickSurely therefore to him belongs the credit of having invented and perfected the tubular boiler and surface condenser.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickThe surface condenser remains as it was ten years ago, with scarcely a detail altered.
Scientific American Supplement No. 299 | VariousThe surface-condenser is cleared by a single-acting air-pump, inside the frame, at T.
A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine | Robert H. ThurstonThe surface condenser was used by Hall in 1838 on the steamship “Wilberforce,” and Sickels in 1841 invented the drop cut-off.
The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. | Edward W. Byrn
British Dictionary definitions for surface condenser
a steam condenser usually associated with a steam turbine in which the steam is condensed on the surface of tubes through which water is passed: Compare jet condenser
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