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Example sentences for "pressure steam"

  • Here the meat is digerated by high-pressure steam of 75 lbs.

  • After cooling, the black mass thus obtained crystallises to a tolerably solid fat, which is well washed once or twice with water, or high-pressure steam, and is then submitted to distillation by the aid of steam heated to about 560 deg.

  • This is due partly to the loss of heat rendered latent by the expansion of the high-pressure steam directly it passes into the air, and partly to the currents of air that are dragged into an escaping jet of steam.

  • Just why Watt should have conceived an antagonism to the idea of high-pressure steam is not altogether clear.

  • According to Appert, minced suet subjected to the action of high-pressure steam in a digester, at 250 deg.

  • Watt's principal objection to using high-pressure steam consisted in the danger to which the boiler was exposed of being burst by internal pressure.

  • When the engine was first tried, it was thought that the blast in the chimney was not strong enough to keep up the intensity of the fire in the furnace, so as to produce high-pressure steam in sufficient quantity.

  • For many years previous to this period, ingenious mechanics had been engaged in attempting to solve the problem of the best and most economical boiler for the production of high-pressure steam.

  • That either the high-pressure valve or piston packing was blowing live steam into the receiver and then into low-pressure steam chest.

  • This shuts off live steam from the low-pressure cylinder and allows exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder to feed through the receiver into the low-pressure steam chest.

  • Thus it will be seen that the steam used in the high pressure steam cylinder is live steam from the boiler, while the steam used in the low pressure steam cylinder is the exhaust steam from the high pressure steam cylinder.

  • It is always larger than its companion high-pressure cylinder in order to get the same power from the low-pressure steam.

  • High steam, or High-pressure steam, steam of which the pressure greatly exceeds that of the atmosphere.

  • Low- pressure steam engine, a steam engine in which low steam is used; often applied to a condensing engine even when steam at high pressure is used.

  • This is James Watt's discovery, and it led him to the use of high-pressure steam, used expansively.

  • It was through his influence that I obtained an order for a high-pressure steam-engine of twenty horse-power to drive the machinery connected with a distillery at Londonderry, in Ireland.

  • From an early period of my efforts as a mechanical engineer, I had been impressed with the great advantages that would result from the employment of small high-pressure steam-engines of a simple and compact construction.

  • It has since been used for high as well as low-pressure steam-- an arrangement which has come into much favour on account of the great economy of fuel which results from using it.

  • I accordingly set to work and constructed a direct-acting, high-pressure steam-engine, with a cylinder four inches in diameter.

  • An excellent plan is to employ large wooden vats, and to apply the heat by means of pipes laid along the bottom, and supplied with high-pressure steam.

  • This last is then poured off from the impurities that may have been deposited, and evaporated in a leaden boiler, over the naked fire, or by high-pressure steam, until it acquires the gravity of 1.

  • The whole usually occupies 5 days; but by using Mr Barlow's high-pressure steam kiers, it may be performed in two days.

  • It is a remarkable fact that this engine of Mr. Trevethick's presents the first practical application of high-pressure steam as a motive power.

  • In this way the heat contained in the drainage from the high-pressure steam is, for the most part, returned to the boilers.

  • The water will be partly heated in these reservoir tanks by means of hot water discharged from high-pressure steam traps.

  • Alban here refers to the earliest permanently successful introduction of the non-condensing high-pressure steam-engine.

  • He then designed the non-condensing engine, in which the power was derived exclusively from the tension of high-pressure steam, and proposed its application to the propulsion of carriages.

  • Steam from the boilers enters the high-pressure steam-chest, X, and is admitted by the steam-valve alternately above and below the piston as usual.

  • Trevithick said to the manufacturer, "You would grind your clay much better by using my cast-iron rolls and high-pressure steam-engine.

  • So that one pound of high-pressure steam is directly reconverted to water, and also indirectly produces between two and three pounds of fresh water.

  • High-pressure steam is passed from the engine boilers into the tubes of an evaporator, and converts the salt water surrounding it into steam.

  • High-pressure steam, admitted to the drums through axial pipes, raises their surfaces to a temperature of 220 deg.

  • Varley introduced the high pressure method, pneumatic despatch received an impetus comparable to that given to the steam-engine by the employment of high-pressure steam.


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