A Steam Generator is a heat transfer equipment and a type of boiler that uses a heat source to boil liquid water and converts into the vapor phase in which very hot water under high pressure enters a heat exchanger and makes steam. In the nuclear power plant steam generator, the primary fluid is transported through tubes while its heat is transferred from the primary fluid to the secondary fluid in the shell. Inside the shell, the secondary fluid temperature increases to its saturation temperature and steam is produced. This steam exits the steam generator and drives the turbine generator before condensing and returning to the steam generator as feedwater.
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