Wairakei was the first station to use flash steam technology.

The illustration, Fig. 128, shows a flash steam plant and its various parts.

After a flash steam plant has been started it will work automatically, providing all the parts are in good running order.

This is only marginally better than cold water by itself, and it does little to eliminate flash steam.

The flashed steam can be used in the feedwater heater.

Flash steam: its application in model and full-size practice.

To avoid wasting it, the condensate with the flash steam can be fed into the tank below the water level.

Check potential for utilisation of flash steam.

Flash Steam plants use geothermal reservoirs of water with temperatures greater than 360 F.

For superheated and flash steam, a stainless steel piston valve was specified.

Steel seems to be the only cheap metal that is capable of withstanding the attack of flash steam.

Flash steam plants, however, are difficult to get in the proper adjustment, and once adjusted they are easily disturbed by minor causes.

Binary cycle power plants can achieve higher efficiencies than flash steam plants, and they allow the utilisation of lower temperature resources.

A considerable equipment of tools and not a little mechanical ingenuity are required to produce and assemble a workable flash steam plant.

Flash steam plants are far more complicated than ordinary steam-propelled power plants, and for this reason the author devotes a chapter to their description.

Fairbairn considered this too, and may have been contemplating the flash steam boiler, but considered the technical aspects insurmountable for the time.

THE flash steam method of propelling model power boats of the racing type produces a far greater speed than would otherwise be possible.

A steam generator is a form of low water-content boiler, similar to a flash steam boiler.

Related Topics: What is Flash Steam?

Owing to the high temperature of the superheated steam, it is impossible to use brass cylinders on the steam-engines employed with flash steam systems.

Not strictly speaking a boiler at all, the concept of flash steam has been around since the 1800's and is common in instant on demand hot water systems today.

Technologies in use include dry steam power plants, flash steam power plants and binary cycle power plants.

Engine: Electric, Glow Plug, Flash Steam and Gas (petrol)

Flash steam stations pull deep, high-pressure hot water into lower-pressure tanks and use the resulting flashed steam to drive turbines.

Coating is discharged into a flash tank where flash steam is directed to a condensing chamber where heat is recovered as hot water.