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Condenser may refer to:
Heat transfer
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Condenser (heat transfer)
In systems involving heat transfer, a condenser is a heat exchanger used to Condensation, condense a gaseous substance into a liquid state through cooling. In doing so, the latent heat is released by the substance and transferred to the surround ...
, a device or unit used to condense vapor into liquid. Specific types include:
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HVAC air coils
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Condenser (laboratory)
In chemistry, a condenser is laboratory apparatus used to condense vaporsthat is, turn them into liquidsby cooling them down.
Condensers are routinely used in laboratory operations such as distillation, reflux, and extraction. In distillation, ...
, a range of laboratory glassware used to remove heat from fluids
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Surface condenser
A surface condenser is a water-cooled shell and tube heat exchanger installed to condense exhaust steam from a steam turbine in thermal power stations. These Condenser (heat transfer), condensers are heat exchangers which convert steam from its g ...
, a heat exchange installed in steam-electric power stations to condense turbine exhaust steam into water
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Isolation condenser The Isolation Condenser (IC) or Isolation Condenser System is one of the injection systems in some nuclear plants (boiling water reactor safety systems).
Emergency passive system
It is a passive system for cooling of some reactors (BWR/2, BWR/3 ... ...
, an emergency passive system for cooling in some reactors (BWR/2, BWR/3 and SBWR series) in nuclear energy production
Steam engines
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Condensing steam locomotive
A condensing steam locomotive is a type of locomotive designed to recover exhaust steam, either in order to improve range between taking on boiler water, or to reduce emission of steam inside enclosed spaces. The apparatus takes the exhaust ste ...
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Jet condenser
The Watt steam engine design was an invention of James Watt that became synonymous with steam engines during the Industrial Revolution, and it was many years before significantly new designs began to replace the basic Watt design.
The first s ...
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Surface condenser
A surface condenser is a water-cooled shell and tube heat exchanger installed to condense exhaust steam from a steam turbine in thermal power stations. These Condenser (heat transfer), condensers are heat exchangers which convert steam from its g ...
Other uses
* Condensers for collecting atmospheric moisture:
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Air well (condenser)
An air well or aerial well is a structure or device that collects water by promoting the condensation of water vapor, moisture from air. Designs for air wells are many and varied, but the simplest designs are completely passive, require no exte ...
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Atmospheric water generator
An atmospheric water generator (AWG), is a device that extracts water from humid ambient air, producing potable water. Water vapor in the air can be extracted either by condensation - cooling the air below its dew point, exposing the air to des ...
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Condenser (optics)
A condenser is an optical Lens (optics), lens that renders a beam divergence, divergent light beam from a point light source into a parallel or converging beam to illuminate an object to be imaged.
Condensers are an essential part of any imaging ...
, a lens which gathers visible light and directs it onto a projection lens to concentrate it
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Capacitor
In electrical engineering, a capacitor is a device that stores electrical energy by accumulating electric charges on two closely spaced surfaces that are insulated from each other. The capacitor was originally known as the condenser, a term st ...
, formerly called a condenser, an electrical device that stores energy
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Condenser microphone
A microphone, colloquially called a mic (), or mike, is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal. Microphones are used in many applications such as telephones, hearing aids, public address systems for concert halls and publi ...
, a capacitor-based microphone that converts sound waves into an electrical signal
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Synchronous condenser
In electrical engineering, a synchronous condenser (sometimes called a syncon, synchronous capacitor or synchronous compensator) is a DC-excited synchronous motor, whose shaft is not connected to anything but spins freely. Its purpose is not to c ...
, a rotating machine similar to a motor, used to control AC power flow in electric power transmission
See also
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Enlarger
An enlarger is a specialized transparency Image projector, projector used to produce Photography, photographic prints from film or glass Negative (photography), negatives, or from reversal film, transparencies.
Construction
All enlargers consist ...
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Köhler illumination
Köhler illumination is a method of specimen illumination used for transmitted and reflected light (trans- and epi-illuminated) optical microscopy. Köhler illumination acts to generate an even illumination of the sample and ensures that an image ...
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Projector (disambiguation)
A projector is a device that projects an image on a surface.
Projector may also refer to:
Computing
* Projector PSA, a software and cloud-computing company
* Projector, a version control system used in the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
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Telescope
A telescope is a device used to observe distant objects by their emission, Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), absorption, or Reflection (physics), reflection of electromagnetic radiation. Originally, it was an optical instrument using len ...
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