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  2. Critical point (thermodynamics) - Wikipedia

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    In thermodynamics, a critical point (or critical state) is the end point of a phase equilibrium curve. One example is the liquid–vapor critical point, the end point of the pressure–temperature curve that designates conditions under which a liquid and its vapor can coexist.

  3. Supercritical steam generator - Wikipedia

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    The water temperature drops below the critical point as it does work in a high pressure turbine and enters the generator's condenser, resulting in slightly less fuel use. The efficiency of power plants with supercritical steam generators is higher than with subcritical steam because thermodynamic efficiency is directly related to the magnitude ...

  4. Supercritical water reactor - Wikipedia

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    The SCWR operates at supercritical pressure. The reactor outlet coolant is supercritical water.Light water is used as a neutron moderator and coolant. Above the critical point, steam and liquid become the same density and are indistinguishable, eliminating the need for pressurizers and steam generators (), or jet/recirculation pumps, steam separators and dryers ().

  5. Supercritical liquid–gas boundaries - Wikipedia

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    These criteria result in different boundaries in the pT plane. These lines emanate either from the critical point, or from the liquid–vapor boundary (boiling curve) somewhat below the critical point. They do not correspond to first or second order phase transitions, but to weaker singularities.

  6. Transcritical cycle - Wikipedia

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    In fact, the critical point of carbon dioxide is 31°C, reasonably in between the hot source and cold source of traditional refrigeration applications, thus suitable for a transcritical applications. In transcritical refrigeration cycles the heat is dissipated through a gas cooler instead of a desuperheater and a condenser [ 26 ] like in ...

  7. Critical line (thermodynamics) - Wikipedia

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    In thermodynamics, a critical line is the higher-dimensional equivalent of a critical point. [1] It is the locus of contiguous critical points in a phase diagram . These lines cannot occur for a single substance due to the phase rule , but they can be observed in systems with more variables, such as mixtures.

  8. Critical phenomena - Wikipedia

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    The critical point is described by a conformal field theory. According to the renormalization group theory, the defining property of criticality is that the characteristic length scale of the structure of the physical system, also known as the correlation length ξ, becomes infinite. This can happen along critical lines in phase space.

  9. Critical point - Wikipedia

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    Critical point may refer to: Critical phenomena in physics; Critical point (mathematics), in calculus, a point where a function's derivative is either zero or nonexistent; Critical point (set theory), an elementary embedding of a transitive class into another transitive class which is the smallest ordinal which is not mapped to itself