Meanings
- uncountableengineeringRapidly formed steam produced when high-pressure condensate undergoes a sudden drop in pressure, as in a flash boiler.
The different types of geothermal resources have necessitated three different types of generating technology: the dry-steam process, the flashsteam process, and the binary process.
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By reducing the temperature in no. 1 seal tank by 20°F, the stock temperature to no. 1 washer would be well below the danger point of causing flashsteam in the barometric leg, and the over-all operation will not suffer.
1959, R. A. D. Bezzola, “No. 1 Brown Stock Washer Operation”, in Tappi Journal, volume 42, number 3, The Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, page 138The flashsteam escapes through the exhaust port (Fig. 20.10) provided at the top of the flashtank while the hot liquid containing some steam condensate flows out through a drain pipe by gravity.
2000, P. Chattopadhyay, Boiler Operation Engineering, →ISBN, page 506
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