Steam pipe

Steam pipe

The pipe which connects the regulator valve with the cylinder steam chest where the valves are located. Steam passes down this pipe when the regulator valve is opened by the driver. In superheated locomotives, the steam is diverted into the superheater header before it reaches the steam chest.

This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.

0 0

Improve it

Add an image

Part of Speech: noun
Synonym(s):
Blossary:
Industry/Domain: Transportation
Category: Railway
Company:
Product:
Acronym-Abbreviation:

Collect to Blossary

Other Languages:

Related terms

steam pipe

Transportation; Railway

The pipe which connects the regulator valve with the cylinder steam chest where the valves are located. Steam passes down this pipe when the regulator valve is opened by the ...

Steam

Video games; General gaming

The leading digital distribution system for video games and related media. Originally conceived as a method only for the distribution of Valve Software's own game Half Life 2, it ...

pipe

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A portion of memory that can be used by one process to pass information along to another; also called "pipelining". Two computer processes are connected so that the output of one ...

pipe

Musical equipment; Wind instruments

A tube used as, or to form an essential part of, a musical wind instrument.

pipe

Beverages; Wine

A cask holding two hogsheads or 120 gallons of wine.

pipe

Metals; Steel

Technically a tube is used to transport fluids or gases. However, pipe and tube are often used interchangeably in steel lexicon, with a given label applied primarily as a matter ...