A steam explosion is an explosion caused by violent boiling or flashing of water or ice into steam, occurring when water or ice is either superheated,...

explosion is a catastrophic failure of a boiler. There are two types of boiler explosions. One type is a failure of the pressure parts of the steam and...

create a steam explosion. Steam is traditionally created by heating a boiler via burning coal and other fuels, but it is also possible to create steam with...

On July 18, 2007, an explosion in Manhattan, New York City, sent a geyser of hot steam up from beneath a busy intersection, with a 40-story-high shower...

being boiled by contact with the steam pipes or by leaks in the steam system itself. At least twelve steam pipe explosions have occurred in New York City...

causing reactor components to rupture and lose coolant. The resulting steam explosions and meltdown destroyed the containment building, followed by a reactor...

dictionary. A phreatic eruption, also called a phreatic explosion, ultravulcanian eruption or steam-blast eruption, occurs when magma heats ground water...

Hydrothermal explosions occur when superheated water trapped below the surface of the Earth rapidly converts from liquid to steam, violently disrupting...

On August 19, 1989, a large steam explosion in front of a residential building generated an asbestos-containing steam cloud in the Gramercy Park neighborhood...

by a volcanic explosion Pseudocrater, a volcanic crater formed by a steam explosion Subsidence crater, a depression in the ground formed by collapse of...

An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume of a given amount of matter associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation...

This is a list of steam boiler explosions such as railway locomotive, marine transport (military and civilian), and stationary power: List of boiling...

containment. Superheated steam and hot metal inside the core can lead to fuel–coolant interactions, hydrogen explosions, or steam hammer, any of which could...

the resulting failures of interconnects in the power grid. 1989: A steam pipe explosion in Gramercy Park killed three, injured 24, and required the evacuation...

found that the company "failed to protect workers from the hazard of steam explosions". According to media outlets, 13 people were hospitalized for injuries...

complex. Steam treatment dissociates cellulose from hemicellulose and lignin for enzymatic hydrolysis to produce fermentable sugars. Steam is introduced...

The crater was initially assumed to have been formed by a volcanic steam explosion; evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity occurs across this...

accidents, the energy released has caused significant mechanical damage or steam explosions. Criticality occurs when sufficient fissile material (a critical mass)...

which can result in a pressure spike in the containment vessel. The steam explosion resulting from such sudden corium-water contact can disperse the materials...

Institute of the Leipzig University in Leipzig, Germany. There was a steam explosion and a reactor fire in the "uranium machine", a primitive form of research...

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extrusion, enzyme mediated, mechanical grinding, ultrasonication, steam explosion and acid hydrolysis. The latter process can be done using mineral acids...

Thumb of Lake Yellowstone 174,000 years ago. Smaller steam explosions occur as well. An explosion 13,800 years ago left a 5 km (3.1 mi) diameter crater...

A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE, /ˈblɛviː/ BLEV-ee) is an explosion caused by the rupture of a vessel containing a pressurized liquid...

lifted by the steam explosion. Since the reactor was not designed with a containment building capable of containing this catastrophic explosion, the accident...

to be an urban legend. The series also discusses a potential third steam explosion, due to the risk of corium melting through to the water reservoirs...

cooling system. A steam explosion occurred when the extreme overheating of the core caused water to flash into steam. A hydrogen explosion may have occurred...

on as steam pipe explodes beneath Fifth Avenue". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 3, 2020. Dwyer, Jim (November 14, 2007). "An Infamous Explosion, and...

lava-like material, melting into the bubbler pools below and creating a steam explosion that would eject more radioactive material into the area. However,...

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure...