🔍 Key Concepts

• Main condenser role in a steam plant • The basic steam cycle: boiler → turbine → condenser → feed system • Difference between recovering feedwater vs storing feedwater

💭 Think About

• In the steam cycle, what happens to exhaust steam right after it leaves the turbine? Where does it go and why? • Which component’s primary job is to turn exhaust steam back into water and maintain a vacuum: the condenser, the feed tank, or something else? • Look at each choice and ask: is this describing what the condenser mainly does, or what a downstream tank or system does with the water after the condenser?

✅ Before You Answer

• Identify which choice talks about condensing exhaust steam and returning it to the cycle rather than just holding it. • Separate the idea of where feedwater is stored from where steam is actually condensed. • Make sure the function you pick would be located physically at the condenser, not in the deaerating feed tank or storage system.