Devices that move or recover heat inside plants and buildings, including cooling towers, economizers, condensers, superheaters, air preheaters, heat pipes, thermosiphons, thermal wheels and supercritical steam generators. A technology belongs here when its cited article describes a heat transfer or heat recovery device. These devices carry heat from a hot stream to a cold one inside a plant or building, or reject it to the air, so that the heat is recovered, raised or disposed of. A device is placed here by the heat transfer or recovery role the cited article describes.
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Cooling tower (Wikipedia)
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A cooling tower is a device that rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a coolant stream, usually a water stream, to a lower temperature.
View the Source Wikipedia: Economizer
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Economizers (US and Oxford spelling), or economisers (UK), are mechanical devices intended to reduce energy consumption, or to perform a useful function such as preheating a fluid.
View the Source Condenser (heat transfer) - Wikipedia
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In systems involving heat transfer, a condenser is a heat exchanger used to condense a gaseous substance into a liquid state through cooling.
View the Source Wikipedia: Superheater
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A superheater is a device used to convert saturated steam or wet steam into superheated steam or dry steam.
View the Source Air preheater - Wikipedia
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An air preheater is any device designed to heat air before another process (for example, combustion in a boiler), with the primary objective of increasing the thermal efficiency of the process.
View the Source Heat pipe - Wikipedia
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A heat pipe is a heat-transfer device that employs phase transition to transfer heat between two solid interfaces.
View the Source Supercritical steam generator - Wikipedia
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A supercritical steam generator is a type of boiler that operates at supercritical pressure and temperature, frequently used in the production of electric power.
View the Source Thermosiphon - Wikipedia
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A thermosiphon (or thermosyphon) is a device that employs a method of passive heat exchange based on natural convection, which circulates a fluid without the necessity of a mechanical pump.
View the Source Wikipedia: Thermal wheel
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A thermal wheel, also known as a rotary heat exchanger, or rotary air-to-air enthalpy wheel, energy recovery wheel, or heat recovery wheel, is a type of energy recovery heat exchanger positioned within the supply and exhaust air streams of air-handling units or rooftop units or in the exhaust gases of an industrial process, in order to recover the heat energy.
View the Source Wikipedia: Surface condenser
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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.
View the Source Wikipedia: Heat exchanger
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A heat exchanger is a system used to transfer heat between a source and a working fluid.
View the Source Wikipedia: Recuperator
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A recuperator is a counter-flow energy recovery heat exchanger that recovers waste heat in the supply and exhaust air streams of an air-handling system or in the exhaust gases of an industrial process.
View the Source Wikipedia: Regenerative heat exchanger
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A regenerative heat exchanger, or more commonly a regenerator, is a type of heat exchanger where heat from the hot fluid is intermittently stored in a thermal storage medium before it is transferred to the cold fluid.
View the Source Wikipedia: Feedwater heater
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A feedwater heater is a power plant component used to pre-heat water delivered to a steam generating boiler.
View the Source Wikipedia: Boiler
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A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.
View the Source Deaerator - Wikipedia
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A deaerator is a device that is used for the removal of dissolved gases like oxygen from a liquid.
View the Source Wikipedia: Heat recovery steam generator
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A heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) is a heat exchanger that recovers heat from a hot gas stream, such as waste gas from combustion turbine.
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