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Why the water cooled condensers have to be used in the water steam cycle of power plant?
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Some of the heat is used to produce electricity, the rest is waste and put into the environment.
Much of the energy of the heat is lost as the steam passes through the turbines, with the heat being converted to mechanical energy, and then to electrical. This accounts for about 35% to 40% of the energy of the heat, cooling it by the removal of that heat.
It would be possible for residual heat to be tapped for conversion into electricity, also, but this is not done in most nuclear reactors. Converting it to electricity would get another 10% or so of the heat of the remaining steam, cooling the steam further.
The remainder of the heat is waste. It is dumped into the environment, primarily into the air, by using heat exchangers and cooling towers. In this system, the steam is used to heat water, condensing in the process. The water is then used to heat air in the cooling tower.
Another way to get rid of waste heat is to use heat exchangers to heat a nearby body of water, such as a lake, the ocean, or a river. This is usually done only in the summer, when the atmosphere is warm and the cooling towers are not efficient enough to do their work.
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∙ 14y ago
Wiki User
∙ 14y agoIn order to condense the steam coming out of the last LP stage of the steam turbine, so that it can be returned to the feed pump inlets as liquid water.
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∙ 13y agoBy passing the superheated steam through a steam turbine, the thermal energy is first converted to mechanical energy and thence to electrical energy
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