In systems involving heat transfer, a condenser is a heat exchanger used to condense a gaseous substance into a liquid state through cooling. In doing so, the latent heat is released by the substance
The condenser coil of a refrigerator
Condenser unit for central air conditioning for a typical house
Rooftop condenser unit fitted on top of an Osaka Municipal Subway 10 series subway carriage (April 2008)
A fractionating column or fractional column is equipment used in the distillation of liquid mixtures to separate the mixture into its component parts, or fractions, based on their differences in volat
Giant fractionating column of Arak Oil Refinery designed and manufactured by Machine Sazi Arak (MSA)
Vigreux column in a laboratory setup
Figure 2: Typical industrial fractionating columns