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	Name:	keyman -
	Subject:	explanation
	Date:	12/8/2008 10:02:47 PM

Alston

wikepedia steam generator for a pretty in-depth answer. The short answer is that it takes really clean water to be boiled over and over again. The water that is being boiled is in one loop called a closed loop(primary). It has to be very clean to keep the impurities from scaling the boiler tubes. That water that is boiled has to be cooled during the cooling process is when the steam changes state back to a liquid. This change causes a pressure change that makes the turbines spin producing power. The cooling water that we are speaking of is in another loop currently an open loop (secondary) out of river through condensor and back to river. A cooling tower would be a closed loop system that recirculates cooling water and is cooled by air. The primary water is heated to bioiling point and passes through condenser where it is cooled by the secondary. The secondary never reaches boiling point only the primary. The reason that you have to cool the steam is to extract all the energy that is produced when the steam changes into water the the process starts all over.

I hope this helps.

keyman