Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

I think for most of us, our chuff pots are about as close to a condenser as we are likely to get on most of our engines. But of course, just because some steam does condense in them, that really isn't the basis for actually being a condenser, which is a specialized apparatus for actually rapidly condensing all steam from an engines exhaust, and doing it in such a way as to actually improve the efficiency of the engine. Then there is also the concept of a separator to remove the steam oil from the water, so that it can be re-injected back into the boiler, but that's another whole can of worms that doesn't scale well at all.