Patent ID: 8297236

Claim:
A steam generator, comprising: an evaporator once-through heating surface formed from a plurality of evaporator tubes; a superheater heating surface arranged in a heating gas side of a heating gas passage and faulted from a plurality of superheater tubes connected downstream of the evaporator tubes with respect to a flow medium; a plurality of water separation elements each attached to an overflow tube section that connects the evaporator tubes to the superheater tubes with respect to a flow medium, wherein the water separator element comprises an inflow tube section connected to the evaporator tubes which are connected upstream of the water separator element and the inflow tube section, as seen in its longitudinal direction, merges into a water discharge tube section, and wherein the water separator element also comprises a plurality of outflow tube sections, connected to the superheater tubes which are connected downstream of the water separator element, branching off in a transition region between the inflow tube section and the outflow tube section.