In a power plant, the primary use of vacuum systems is to remove air and other noncondensable gases from the shell side of the condenser in order to maintain design heat transfer and thus design ...

WISCONSIN ELECTRIC’S 624 MW coal-fired Presque Isle power plant recently tested the use of a condenser tube cleaning system to reduce maintenance costs. According to Ms. Sue Sorrelle, the plant’s ...

One of the main components of any refrigeration or air conditioning system is the condenser. It is larger than the evaporator is because it not only has to reject the evaporator’s heat load, but also ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority is working to determine what caused the structural supports of a refurbished condenser to fail and how best to repair the damage at the newly commissioned Watts Bar 2 ...

FIGURE 1: One way to reduce the amount of extra refrigerant charge needed for condenser flooding is to split the condenser into two separate and identical condenser circuits – note the “summer/winter” ...