__NOTOC__ Condenser may refer to:

Heat transfer

Condenser (heat transfer) In systems involving heat transfer, a condenser is a heat exchanger used to condense a gaseous substance into a liquid state through cooling. In so doing, the latent heat is released by the substance and transferred to the surrounding environm ...

, a device or unit used to condense vapor into liquid. Specific types include: ** HVAC air coils **

Condenser (laboratory) In chemistry, a condenser is laboratory apparatus used to condense vaporsthat is, turn them into liquidsby cooling them down. Condensers are routinely used in laboratory operations such as distillation, reflux, and extraction. In distillati ...

, a range of laboratory glassware used to remove heat from fluids **

Surface condenser A surface condenser is a water-cooled shell and tube heat exchanger installed to condense exhaust steam from a steam turbine in thermal power stations. These condensers are heat exchangers which convert steam from its gaseous to its liquid stat ...

, a heat exchange installed in steam-electric power stations to condense turbine exhaust steam into water ** Isolation condenser, an emergency passive system for cooling in some reactors (BWR/2, BWR/3 and SBWR series) in nuclear energy production

Steam engines

Condensing steam locomotive A condensing steam locomotive is a type of locomotive designed to recover exhaust steam, either in order to improve range between taking on boiler water, or to reduce emission of steam inside enclosed spaces. The apparatus takes the exhaust stea ...

* Jet condenser *

Other uses

* Condensers for collecting atmospheric moisture: **

Air well (condenser) An air well or aerial well is a structure or device that collects water by promoting the condensation of moisture from air. Designs for air wells are many and varied, but the simplest designs are completely passive, require no external energy s ...

** Atmospheric water generator *

Condenser (optics) A condenser is an optical lens which renders a divergent beam from a point source into a parallel or converging beam to illuminate an object. Condensers are an essential part of any imaging device, such as microscopes, enlargers, slide project ...

, a lens which gathers visible light and directs it onto a projection lens to concentrate it *

Capacitor A capacitor is a device that stores electrical energy in an electric field by virtue of accumulating electric charges on two close surfaces insulated from each other. It is a passive electronic component with two terminals. The effect of ...

, formerly called a condenser, an electrical device that stores energy *

Condenser microphone A microphone, colloquially called a mic or mike (), is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal. Microphones are used in many applications such as telephones, hearing aids, public address systems for concert halls and public ...

, a capacitor-based microphone that converts sound waves into an electrical signal *

Synchronous condenser In electrical engineering, a synchronous condenser (sometimes called a syncon, synchronous capacitor or synchronous compensator) is a DC-excited synchronous motor, whose shaft is not connected to anything but spins freely.B. M. Weedy, Electric Po ...

, a rotating machine similar to a motor, used to control AC power flow in electric power transmission

Heat transfer

Steam engines

Other uses

See also