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70 relations: American Petroleum Institute, Application programming interface, ASME, Atmospheric pressure, Ball valve, Bellcrank, Boiler, Boiler explosion, Butterfly valve, Cambridge University Press, Chemical plant, Coil spring, Control valve, Deformation (mechanics), Denis Papin, Eastern Counties Railway, Eel, Evaporator (marine), F&W Media International, Fail-safe, Flow limiter, Globe valve, Great Western Railway, Greenwich, Grommet, Heat exchanger, High-integrity pressure protection system, Hysteresis, Ian Allan Publishing, Industrial Revolution, Interlock (engineering), John Ramsbottom (engineer), Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Leaf spring, LNER Class V2, London and North Western Railway, Marine steam engine, Metaphor, Natural-gas processing, Needle valve, North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom), Oil refinery, Oxford University Press, Petrochemical, Pilot-operated relief valve, Power station, Pressure cooking, Pressure measurement, Pressure vessel, Relief valve, ..., Rhymney Railway, Richard Trevithick, Robert Sinclair (locomotive engineer), Rupture disc, Safety shutoff valve, Salter Housewares, Sea level, Servomechanism, Spring scale, Stationary engine, Steam digester, Steelyard balance, Stockton and Darlington Railway, System, Thermostat, Timothy Hackworth, Valve, Water heating, Water-tube boiler, Young's modulus. Expand index (20 more) »
American Petroleum Institute
The American Petroleum Institute (API) is the largest U.S. trade association for the oil and natural gas industry.
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Application programming interface
In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) is a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building software.
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ASME
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is a professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing education, training and professional development, codes and standards, research, conferences and publications, government relations, and other forms of outreach." ASME is thus an engineering society, a standards organization, a research and development organization, a lobbying organization, a provider of training and education, and a nonprofit organization.
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Atmospheric pressure
Atmospheric pressure, sometimes also called barometric pressure, is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth (or that of another planet).
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Ball valve
A ball valve is a form of quarter-turn valve which uses a hollow, perforated and pivoting ball to control flow through it.
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Bellcrank
A bellcrank is a type of crank that changes motion through an angle.
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Boiler
A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.
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Boiler explosion
A boiler explosion is a catastrophic failure of a boiler.
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Butterfly valve
A butterfly valve is a valve that isolates or regulates the flow of a fluid.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.
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Chemical plant
A chemical plant is an industrial process plant that manufactures (or otherwise processes) chemicals, usually on a large scale.
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Coil spring
A coil spring, also known as a helical spring, is a mechanical device which is typically used to store energy and subsequently release it, to absorb shock, or to maintain a force between contacting surfaces.
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Control valve
A control valve is a valve used to control fluid flow by varying the size of the flow passage as directed by a signal from a controller.
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Deformation (mechanics)
Deformation in continuum mechanics is the transformation of a body from a reference configuration to a current configuration.
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Denis Papin
Denis Papin FRS (22 August 1647 – 26 August 1713) was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.
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Eastern Counties Railway
The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) was an English railway company incorporated in 1836 intended to link London with Ipswich via Colchester, and then extend to Norwich and Yarmouth.
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Eel
An eel is any ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes, which consists of four suborders, 20 families, 111 genera and about 800 species.
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Evaporator (marine)
An evaporator, distiller or distilling apparatus is a piece of ship's equipment used to produce fresh drinking water from sea water by distillation.
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F&W Media International
F&W Media International Limited, formerly known as David & Charles Publishers (also styled as David and Charles), is a publisher of illustrated non-fiction books, eBooks, digital products, craft patterns and online education courses.
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Fail-safe
A fail-safe in engineering is a design feature or practice that in the event of a specific type of failure, inherently responds in a way that will cause no or minimal harm to other equipment, the environment or to people.
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Flow limiter
A flow limiter or flow restrictor is a device to restrict the flow of a fluid, in general a gas or a liquid.
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Globe valve
A globe valve, different from ball valve, is a type of valve used for regulating flow in a pipeline, consisting of a movable disk-type element and a stationary ring seat in a generally spherical body.
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Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.
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Greenwich
Greenwich is an area of south east London, England, located east-southeast of Charing Cross.
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Grommet
Curtain grommets, used among others in shower curtains. A grommet is a ring or edge strip inserted into a hole through thin material, typically a sheet of textile fabric, sheet metal or composite of carbon fiber, wood or honeycomb.
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Heat exchanger
A heat exchanger is a device used to transfer heat between two or more fluids.
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High-integrity pressure protection system
A high-integrity pressure protection system (HIPPS) is a type of safety instrumented system (SIS) designed to prevent over-pressurization of a plant, such as a chemical plant or oil refinery.
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Hysteresis
Hysteresis is the dependence of the state of a system on its history.
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Ian Allan Publishing
Ian Allan Publishing is a UK publisher, established in 1942, which specialised in transport books.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
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Interlock (engineering)
An interlock is a feature that makes the state of two mechanisms or functions mutually dependent.
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John Ramsbottom (engineer)
John Ramsbottom (11 September 1814 – 20 May 1897) was an English mechanical engineer.
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Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping.
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Leaf spring
A leaf spring is a simple form of spring commonly used for the suspension in wheeled vehicles.
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LNER Class V2
The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class V2 2-6-2 steam locomotives were designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for express mixed traffic work, and built at the LNER shops at Doncaster and Darlington between 1936–1944.
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London and North Western Railway
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.
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Marine steam engine
A marine steam engine is a steam engine that is used to power a ship or boat.
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Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for rhetorical effect.
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Natural-gas processing
Natural-gas processing is a complex industrial process designed to clean raw natural gas by separating impurities and various non-methane hydrocarbons and fluids to produce what is known as pipeline quality dry natural gas.
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Needle valve
A needle valve is a type of valve having a small port and a threaded, needle-shaped plunger.
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North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom)
The North Eastern Railway (NER) was an English railway company.
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Oil refinery
Oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is transformed and refined into more useful products such as petroleum naphtha, gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas, jet fuel and fuel oils.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Petrochemical
Petrochemicals (also known as petroleum distillates) are chemical products derived from petroleum.
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Pilot-operated relief valve
070111 hydraulicspneumatics.com no opening until 90% of full pressure --> Like other pressure relief valves (PRV), pilot operated relief valves (PORV) are used for emergency relief during overpressure events (e.g., a tank gets too hot and the expanding fluid increases the pressure to dangerous levels).
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Power station
A power station, also referred to as a power plant or powerhouse and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power.
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Pressure cooking
Pressure cooking is the process of cooking food, using water or other cooking liquid, in a sealed vessel known as a pressure cooker.
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Pressure measurement
Pressure measurement is the analysis of an applied force by a fluid (liquid or gas) on a surface.
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Pressure vessel
A pressure vessel is a container designed to hold gases or liquids at a pressure substantially different from the ambient pressure.
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Relief valve
A relief valve or pressure relief valve (PRV) is a type of safety valve used to control or limit the pressure in a system; pressure might otherwise build up and create a process upset, instrument or equipment failure, or fire.
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Rhymney Railway
The Rhymney Railway was a railway company in South Wales, founded to transport minerals and materials to and from collieries and ironworks in the Rhymney Valley of South Wales, and to docks in Cardiff.
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Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) was a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall, England.
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Robert Sinclair (locomotive engineer)
Robert Sinclair (1817–1898) was born in London but came from a Caithness family.
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Rupture disc
A rupture disc, also known as a pressure safety disc, burst disc, bursting disc, or burst diaphragm, is a non-reclosing pressure relief device that, in most uses, protects a pressure vessel, equipment or system from overpressurization or potentially damaging vacuum conditions.
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Safety shutoff valve
When this type of valve is tripped, the flow is quickly stopped and an indicator disc tells the operator that the electrical circuit has been opened by a failure somewhere in the system.
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Salter Housewares
Salter Housewares (still trading under its original name Salter) is a British manufacturer of consumer weighing scales for personal and kitchen use, and other kitchen accessories.
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Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL) (often shortened to sea level) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured.
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Servomechanism
In control engineering a servomechanism, sometimes shortened to servo, is an automatic device that uses error-sensing negative feedback to correct the action of a mechanism.
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Spring scale
A spring scale or spring balance or newton meter is a type of weighing scale.
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Stationary engine
A stationary engine is an engine whose framework does not move.
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Steam digester
The steam digester (or bone digester, and also known as Papin’s digester) is a high-pressure cooker invented by French physicist Denis Papin in 1679.
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Steelyard balance
A steelyard balance, steelyard, or stilyard is a straight-beam balance with arms of unequal length.
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Stockton and Darlington Railway
The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863.
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System
A system is a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming an integrated whole.
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Thermostat
A thermostat is a component which senses the temperature of a physical system and performs actions so that the system's temperature is maintained near a desired setpoint.
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Timothy Hackworth
Timothy Hackworth (22 December 1786 – 7 July 1850) was a steam locomotive engineer who lived in Shildon, County Durham, England and was the first locomotive superintendent of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
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Valve
A valve is a device that regulates, directs or controls the flow of a fluid (gases, liquids, fluidized solids, or slurries) by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways.
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Water heating
Water heating is a heat transfer process that uses an energy source to heat water above its initial temperature.
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Water-tube boiler
A high pressure watertube boiler (also spelled water-tube and water tube) is a type of boiler in which water circulates in tubes heated externally by the fire.
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Young's modulus
Young's modulus, also known as the elastic modulus, is a measure of the stiffness of a solid material.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_valve
