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The 635 boat is now a Moored Training Ship in Charleston, as you well know, Don. My last duty station before retiring.
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My experience is somewhat dated, but even fairly recent marine steam turbine power plants included steam-powered devices called "air ejectors" (basically a Venturi suction tube) whose main purpose was to reduce the turbine condenser pressure very close to an absolute vacuum in order to maximize turbine efficiency. But they also removed noncondensible gases, mainly nitrogen and oxygen, from the steam. The discharge of the air ejectors went into another condenser that removed the the residual condensed steam, returning that water to the steam cycle, while venting the noncondensible gases to the atmosphere.