Study on steam-carrying effect in static flash of both pure water and aqueous NaCl solution was present. Properties, including steam-carrying ratio, waterfilm height drop and equilibrium concentration of waterfilm, were measured in experiments. Their dependences on separating height, initial waterfilm concentration and mean pressure difference were analyzed. Particularly, steam-carrying ratio was defined as the mass ratio of be-carried liquid and generated steam. Results suggested that this ratio increased with the decreasing of separating height or the rising of initial waterfilm concentration, and a peak value existed in its evolution versus mean pressure difference. At last, according to experimental results and basic principles a calculating model for steam-carrying effect in static flash was built. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.