condensers

"Secondly, In engines that are to be worked wholly or partially by condensation of steam, the steam is to be condensed in vessels distinct from the steam vessels or cylinders, although occasionally communicating with them; these vessels I call condensers; and, whilst the engines are working, these condensers ought at least to be kept as cold as the air in the neighborhood of the engines, by application of water or other cold bodies.

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Bruce Barker, a Phoenix home inspector, says almost all the new houses he sees have minimum-quality windows, and about three-quarters have inadequate loose fill or fiberglass insulation; other houses he's inspected have brand-name condensers on the exterior of the home, where buyers can see them, connected to generic furnaces hidden in the attic.

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An early plan to store it in the condensers, which are normally used to convert the steam that powers the plant's turbines into water, has been delayed because that machinery is already full.

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Design changes to new reactors with condensers may address this.

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Under the elm leaf-shape structure are cooling condensers that soak up humidity from the desert air.

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Some new reactors that now use condensers have other design changes that make the condenser more appropriate, he said.

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Isolation condensers, by contrast, don't require electric power.

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There was no serious discussion of retrofitting older plants with the alternative technology, known as "isolation condensers," government advisers said.

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A GE spokesman said GE opted for the active backup-cooling system in Fukushima Daiichi units 2 to 6, and in other reactors, because it believed the system was safer than earlier condensers and was better suited to bigger reactors.

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General Electric Co. and Hitachi, which have a global alliance in reactors, use isolation condensers in their latest designs.

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