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Parent topics

• Chemistry [r]: The science of matter, or of the electrical or electrostatical interactions of matter. ^[e]
• Engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products. ^[e]
• Physics [r]: The study of forces and energies in space and time. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Chemical engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products ^[e]
• Thermodynamics [r]: The statistical description of the properties of molecular systems ^[e]

Other related topics

• Air preheater [r]: A general term to describe any device designed to preheat the combustion air used in a fuel-burning furnace for the purpose of increasing the thermal efficiency of the furnace. ^[e]
• Cogeneration [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Combined power and heat [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Condensate polishing [r]: An ion exchange process used to purify the steam condensate produced in high-pressure steam generation facilities such as those in large thermal power plants. ^[e]
• Conventional coal-fired power plant [r]: power plant that burns coal in a steam generator to produce high pressure steam, which goes to steam turbines that generate electricity. ^[e]
• Deaerator [r]: A device used for the removal of air and other dissolved gases from the feedwater to steam generating boilers. ^[e]
• Enthalpy [r]: Energy function of thermodynamic system equal to internal energy plus pV (pressure times volume). ^[e]
• Entropy (thermodynamics) [r]: Thermodynamic variable S appearing in the second law of thermodynamics. ^[e]
• Gas [r]: One of the major states of matter (i.e., gas, liquid, solid and plasma). ^[e]
  • Vapor (a redirect to Gas)
• Heat [r]: A form of energy that flows spontaneously from hotter to colder bodies that are in thermal contact. ^[e]
• Pressure [r]: A ratio equal to the force applied perpendicular to the surface of the area divided by that area (force/area). ^[e]
• Steam generator [r]: A device that uses a heat source to boil liquid water and convert it into its vapor phase, referred to as steam. ^[e]
• Steam turbine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Temperature [r]: A fundamental quantity in physics - describes how warm or cold a system is. ^[e]
• Water [r]: A chemical compound with one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms (H₂0). It is often in a liquid form and makes up the bulk of the oceans, lakes, rivers and living organisms. ^[e]