DSK wrote:

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?

You both have really muddled and overcomplicated the issue.

Condensate depression is simply the difference in temperature between
the temperature at which steam will condense at the pressure existing in
the condenser and the temperature of the condensate in the hotwell.

Too much cooling (beyond about 10* below condensation temperature) means
that BTU's are needlessly tossed overboard and must be replaced by
burning expensive fuel.

Rick