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


Nav wrote:
Good lord. How childish. No wait, it's a genuine question right? Well
Doug, it's a temperature difference

Right.

Where?

I mean, between which two points in the steam cycle?

... that is impoertant to overall
thermodynamic efficiency which can be defined as P/Qh-Qc.

How else could it be defined, in more everyday terms?

... 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?

Yep. But your answer is mostly gobbledy gook to me. What's a dryness
fraction? Are you saying that condensate depression relates to degree of
superheat?

Rick can you make any sense of this?

DSK