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A steam drum is a standard feature of a water-tube boiler. It is a reservoir of water/steam at the top end of the water tubes. The drum stores the steam generated in the water tubes and acts as a phase- separator for the steam/water mixture. The difference in densities between hot and cold water helps in the accumulation of the "hotter"-water ...
Mode (s) Single-player. Disco Elysium is a 2019 role-playing video game developed and published by ZA/UM. Inspired by Infinity Engine -era games, particularly Planescape: Torment, the game was written and designed by a team led by Estonian novelist Robert Kurvitz and features an art style based on oil painting with music by the English band ...
Superheated steam is steam at a temperature higher than its vaporization point at the absolute pressure where the temperature is measured. Superheated steam can therefore cool (lose internal energy) by some amount, resulting in a lowering of its temperature without changing state (i.e., condensing) from a gas, to a mixture of saturated vapor ...
Watt steam engine. A late version of a Watt double-acting steam engine, built by D. Napier & Son (London) in 1832, now in the lobby of the Superior Technical School of Industrial Engineers of the UPM ( Madrid ). Steam engines of this kind propelled the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain and the world. The Watt steam engine design became ...
Steam cracking. Steam cracking is a petrochemical process in which saturated hydrocarbons are broken down into smaller, often unsaturated, hydrocarbons. It is the principal industrial method for producing the lighter alkenes (or commonly olefins ), including ethene (or ethylene) and propene (or propylene ). Steam cracker units are facilities in ...
Steampunk. Original illustration of Jules Verne 's Nautilus engine room. "Maison tournante aérienne" (aerial rotating house) by Albert Robida for his book Le Vingtième Siècle, a 19th-century conception of life in the 20th century. Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired ...
The Royal Duchy train, hauled by Tangmere, along the Dawlish sea wall in 2015. Although steam locomotives were withdrawn from normal railway service in Great Britain in 1968, due to sustained public interest including a locomotive preservation movement, steam hauled passenger trains can still be seen on the mainline railway (i.e. Network Rail owned tracks as opposed to heritage railways) in ...
The resulting (altered) brew was released as normal Anchor Steam, but with an inverted label; this beer has come to be referred to as Earthquake Beer. [26] In 1993, the company opened Anchor Distillery, a microdistillery in the same location as the brewery, and began making a single malt rye whiskey , named Old Potrero, after the hill on which ...