A pipe designed to carry pressurized steam from a boiler to the working components, i.e. the steam engine(s) or turbine(s). Such piping usually includes valves to control the routing of the steam, or to stop the flow altogether.
A specific application of a steam pipe is the main steam pipe of a steam locomotive, which transports the pressurized steam from the steam dome atop the boiler to the cylinders, via the steam chests.
A component of a district heatingsystem, which distributes heat through an area via heated steam, which is transported through (typically buried) steam pipes to individual buildings.
New York City steam system, a district heating system in New York City, an example of a district heating system.
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Steampipe may refer to: A pipe designed to carry pressurized steam from a boiler to the working components, i.e. the steam engine(s) or turbine(s). Such...
too. It was state of the art until the 1930s. These systems piped very high-temperature steam through concrete ducts, and were therefore not very efficient...
supply system. Steam vapor can be caused by a leak in Con Ed's steam system or by cooler water contacting the outside of a steampipe. The vapor is often...
caused by the failure of an 83-year-old, 24-inch (0.61 m) underground steampipe near Grand Central Terminal, which exploded during the evening rush hour...
polyethylene, and galvanized pipe, which is typically glued, soldered, or threaded. Other types of piping systems include steam, ventilation, hydraulics,...
main steampipe, or dry pipe, and the regulator/throttle valve.: 211–212 : 26 Air pump / Air compressor Westinghouse pump (US+) Powered by steam, it compresses...
is to control the amount of steam leaving the boiler. The steam then either travels directly along and down a steampipe to the engine unit or may first...
repairing a high pressure steampipe in front of the building when a 30-inch (76 cm) connecting sleeve burst, releasing steam and debris upwards. Laboratory...
and the resulting failures of interconnects in the power grid. 1989: A steampipe explosion in Gramercy Park killed three, injured 24, and required the...
experimenters used steam to power small fountains working like a coffee percolator. First a container was filled with water via a pipe, which extended through...
forces acting on the pipe such as weight of pipe and fluid, forces due to relief or blow down, pressure waves generated due to water/steam hammer effects....
pressure wave propagates in the pipe. This pressure wave can cause major problems, from noise and vibration to pipe rupture or collapse. It is possible...
The steam dome is a vessel fitted to the top of the boiler of a steam engine. It contains the opening to the main steampipe and its purpose is to allow...
cause steam hammer: a form of water hammer caused by water build up 'plugging' a pipe then being accelerated by the steam flowing through the pipe until...
behind and above their cells. Eventually they cut a hole in a steampipe and used the pipe to escape from the prison into the city sewer, with tools obtained...
February 1895. It was the first Swedish steam-pipe association to take care of the interests of the owners of steam generators and other pressure vessels...
American National Standard Pipe Thread standards, often called national pipe thread standards for short, are United States national technical standards...
site, on the north bank of the Wupper, a few metres (yards) from the steampipe bridge onto which the train fell (and which has since been repaired)....
Kenyon, tied his hands behind his back, and tied the rope to an overhead steampipe in the furnace room. Then they decided to cut him free and move him to...
correction”) is caused by the vibrating steam inside the whistle engaging vibration of some steam outside the enclosed pipe, where there is a transition from...
crawl under or climb over a pipe—a highly dangerous activity, especially when the pipe contains scalding high-pressure steam (and may not be particularly...
Orangeburg pipe (also known as "fiber conduit", "bituminous fiber pipe" or "Bermico" or "sand pipe") is bituminized fiber pipe used in the United States...
detectives and Amelia arrive just after she is scalded to death by an open steampipe. Amelia finds a piece of Lindsay's bone by her body and another scrap...
survived the amputation of his own foot by cauterizing his stump using a hot steampipe; he was later nursed back to health by John, who subsequently recruited...
uses steam pressure to draw air out of the vacuum pipe and reservoirs of continuous train brake. Steam locomotives, with a ready source of steam, found...
arrangement categories: Single or one-pipe Two pipesteam (direct return or reverse return) Three pipe Four pipe Series loop In the oldest modern hydronic...
boiler is also fed to the steam drum through a feed pipe extending inside the drum, along the length of the steam drum. A steam drum is used without or...