Sandfields Pumping Station - surface condenser
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Sandfields Pumping Station - surface condenser
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 4 Nov 2001
This is relatively unusual for a Cornish beam pumping engine. A vertically orientated surface condenser with the steam in the tubes and canal water surrounding them in a cast iron tank. Modern power station surface condensers have the steam outside the tubes and circulating cooling water in the tubes. I suspect the surface condenser was used, rather than a jet, due to the canal water being possibly of dubious quality. The bell mouth to bottom right is the condenser tank overflow and feeds the water to a circulating pump that returns it to the canal, warmer than when it arrived. See also Image and Image
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Image Location
Latitude
52.673551
Longitude
-1.834911