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Two of the major jobs that a boiler drum performs are ____ _____ for the boiler and _____ _____ from the boiler before it goes to the turbine.
Receiving feedwater / collecting steam
List 2 reasons why circulation is necessary in the boiler.
Provides a constant supply of water to be turn to steam. Carries intense heat of the boiler furnance away from the water wells.
What affects natural circulation in a drum type boiler?
Amount of heat produced in the furnace. The height of the boiler. The pressure at which the boiler operates.
Drum boilers that have pumps to help circulate water through the downcomers are called ____ ____ boilers.
Controlled circulation
Before steam is sent through the outlet pipes of a drum, it is usually sent through _____ to remove additional water that is not removed by the moisture separators.
Dryers
What is boiling?
Convert water into steam.
The temperature at which water will boil at a given pressure is called the _____ ______.
Saturation temperature
Whenever water and steam are present together, the temperature of both the water and the steam will always be ____________________________.
The saturation temperature for the existing pressure.
_____ increase the efficiency of boilers by using heat that would otherwise be lost up the stack.
Superheaters
A ______ superheater is located in a direct "line of sight" with the furnance flames.
Radient
What do attemperators do?
Keeps final temperature from becoming too hot cause damage to metal.
Before steam flows from the HP section of the turbine to the IP section, it is often returned to the _____ for reheating.
Boiler
The point at which there is no distinguishable difference between water and steam is called the _____ ______.
Critical point
Boilers that operate at ________ temperatures and _______ have a built-in inefficiency.
Subcritical / pressures
In a once-through boiler _____ _______ ______.
Water goes through only once There is no recirculation flow path The temperatures and pressures are often supercritical