BLEEDING CYCLE

A steam cycle in which steam is drawn from the turbine at one or more stages and used to heat the feedwater. Also known as regenerative cycle.

bleeding_cycle turbine steam cycle heat

Related Terms

Condenser using the outer surface of the cabinet as the heat radiating medium.

skin_condenser surface heat condenser

That steam produced by a boiler which returns to the boiler after it has condensed.

return_steam_condensate boiler steam

The ability of a system to remove heat as compared with the cooling effect produced by melting of ice.

refrigerating_capacity heat system cooling

The process whereby large molecules are broken down by the application of heat and pressure to form smaller molecules.

cracking molecule pressure heat process form

A thermo-dynamic process in which no heat is extracted from or added to the system of the process.

adiabatic_process thermo_dynamic_process heat system process

A device to transfer heat from a low temperature to a high temperature medium.

refrigerator device temperature heat transfer high low

A fluid used to remove heat. See Cutting fluid.

coolant fluid heat cutting

A device which transfers heat through a conducting wall from one fluid to another.

heat_exchanger device heat conducting_wall fluid wall

The ratio of actual work output of a heat engine to the ideal output.

adiabatic_efficiency heat_engine ideal_output engine heat ratio output

Compressing a gas without removing or adding heat.

adiabatic_compression heat gas