• The purpose of the Kirchweger condenser (German: Kirchweger-Kondensationseinrichtung or Kirchwegersche Abdampfkondensation) was to preheat feedwater in...
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  • engineer Kirchweger condenser, a device to preheat feedwater in a steam locomotive using the exhaust steam from the engine Ernst Kirchweger (1898–1965), Nazi...
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  • emerged. He introduced feedwater preheating on locomotives using the Kirchweger condenser and introduced "Hanoverian standard locomotives" based on those built...
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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...
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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. In so doing...
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    4-8-4 South Manchuria Railway Mikaku class 2-8-2 Jet condenser Kirchweger condenser Surface condenser Titanic: Building the World's Most Famous Ship By Anton...
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    invented by James Watt, in which the steam was condensed in a separate condenser. The Watt steam engine, aided by better engineering techniques including...
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  • variants. All the engines had a Crampton boiler with smooth tubes and a Kirchweger condenser. They were equipped with a 3 T 5 tender. Royal Bavarian State Railways...
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    Locomotive Oscillating Single- and double-acting Condenser Condensing steam locomotive Jet Kirchweger Watt's separate "Pickle-pot" Surface Other Blowback...
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    since the pressure in the heater is between the boiler pressure and the condenser pressure. A deaerator is a special case of the open feedwater heater which...
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    used cleaner liquid fuel (kerosene), were fitted with rubber tyres and condensers to recover water, and were lighter overall. These improvements were not...
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  • apart from the three engines with the Eastern State Railway, a Kirchweger condenser. The valve gear was either a Borsig or Stephenson type. In addition...
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  • the hand-operated screw brake on the tender. The locomotives had Kirchweger condensers to pre-heat the feedwater. An external feature of that is the second...
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  • the hand-operated screw brake on the tender. The locomotives had Kirchweger condensers to pre-heat the feedwater. An external feature of that is the second...
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  • hand-operated screw brake on the tender. In 1850 the locomotives were given Kirchweger condensers to pre-heat the feedwater. An external feature of that is the second...
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  • boiler with a rectangular dome, an inside Stephenson valve gear and Kirchweger condensers. In LDE service the engines only sported names; no running numbers...
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