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At what temperature saturated steam turns into superheated steam?
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all temperatures above saturated steam is super heated steam.
"Superheated" steam isn't so much a scientific term as a technical term. Steam is more efficient the more energy it has (the molecules have more kenetic energy/are hotter).
During the height of steam locomotive development, the most fuel efficient way to accomplish this was to collect the steam, and then run it through a series of loops that are exposed to the exhaust gases of the original combustion, there-by further heating the steam.
Because the steam receives no further moisture, but received further heat energy, it is considered 'dry' steam. Superheat was a term coined by the engine builders as a way to promote the design as a way to sell their engines.
Because the superheater pipes carried steam pressure, they added additional equipment that had to be inspected as per ICC regulations. Because they also were exposed to the exhaust gas stream, they had a likelyhood of being erroded by the waste fuel being exhausted as well as the 1300+ degree combustion exhsut gasses.
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