Cooling for the plant's steam condenser is provided by circulating water through it, drawn from the adjacent Connecticut river.
Steam turbine CHP plants that use the heating system as the steam condenser for the steam turbine.
Applications are in wet mechanical cooling towers, air-cooled steam condensers, air-cooled heat exchangers, radiators, or similar air-cooled applications.
Asked about a 1993 seizure by Italian customs of eight steam condensers destined for Iran, he said, "I don't know really.
Patent 913 A method of lessening the consumption of steam in steam engines-the separate condenser.
The study found the river did warm up around the power plant, which used river water to cool its steam condensers before sending it back out the pipes.
To conserve water, cooling towers are used to dissipate the waste heat from the steam condenser thus permitting the water to be recycled.
On the introduction of injectors for boiler feeding the exhaust steam condensers were taken out of use from the 1860s, because injectors could only handle cold water.
The steam condenser uses about 9 tonnes of water a second from the River Yare.
The steam passes through a steam condenser, reverts back to water through cooling, and the process repeats.