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Bleeding of steam means Extracting steam from Turbines for heating the feed-water.
Normally, there are High Pressure Heaters & Low Pressure heaters in Condensate cycle. Steam bleed out from the turbine gets into these heaters and heats up the feed-water (generally termed as Sensible Heat Addition).
The steam that was bled can be re-used as condensate in Deaerators.
Steam Extractions although reduce net work output but helps in overall gain in efficiency in terms of Reduced Fuel Consumption.
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