DSK wrote:

Rick wrote:

We determine condensate depression and other operational factors by
calculating condenser vacuum based on exhaust temperature.


Here's a good homework question for Navvie/Navjax/Navsprit:

Define "condensate depression" and explain it's significance in steam
plant operations.


Good lord. How childish. No wait, it's a genuine question right? Well
Doug, it's a temperature difference that is impoertant to overall
thermodynamic efficiency which can be defined as P/Qh-Qc. For a steam
plant, the steam temperature and it's dryness fraction times the mass
flow rate determine heat fluxes in that equation.

Yes Doug, I did freshman thermodynamics. Did you?

Cheers