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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Chernobyl disaster (redirect from Chernobyl explosion)
causing reactor components to rupture and lose coolant. The resulting steam explosions and meltdown destroyed the containment building, followed by a reactor...
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Phreatic eruption (redirect from Phreatic explosion)
dictionary. A phreatic eruption, also called a phreatic explosion, ultravulcanian eruption or steam-blast eruption, occurs when magma heats ground water...
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Hydrothermal explosions occur when superheated water trapped below the surface of the Earth rapidly converts from liquid to steam, violently disrupting...
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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...
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by a volcanic explosion Pseudocrater, a volcanic crater formed by a steam explosion Subsidence crater, a depression in the ground formed by collapse of...
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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...
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This is a list of steam boiler explosions such as railway locomotive, marine transport (military and civilian), and stationary power: List of boiling...
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containment. Superheated steam and hot metal inside the core can lead to fuel–coolant interactions, hydrogen explosions, or steam hammer, any of which could...
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found that the company "failed to protect workers from the hazard of steam explosions". According to media outlets, 13 people were hospitalized for injuries...
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Consolidated Edison (section Steam)
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...
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Abengoa (section Steam Treatment (Steam Explosion))
complex. Steam treatment dissociates cellulose from hemicellulose and lignin for enzymatic hydrolysis to produce fermentable sugars. Steam is introduced...
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The crater was initially assumed to have been formed by a volcanic steam explosion; evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity occurs across this...
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accidents, the energy released has caused significant mechanical damage or steam explosions. Criticality occurs when sufficient fissile material (a critical mass)...
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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...
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engine steam explosion steam fair Steam generator (boiler) steam generator Steam generator (nuclear power) steam hammer steam locomotive steam locomotive...
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Yellowstone Caldera (section Hydrothermal explosions)
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...
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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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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...
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A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE, /ˈblɛviː/ BLEV-ee) is an explosion caused by the rupture of a vessel containing a pressurized liquid...
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lifted by the steam explosion. Since the reactor was not designed with a containment building capable of containing this catastrophic explosion, the accident...
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extrusion, enzyme mediated, mechanical grinding, ultrasonication, steam explosion and acid hydrolysis. The latter process can be done using mineral acids...
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lava-like material, melting into the bubbler pools below and creating a steam explosion that would eject more radioactive material into the area. However,...
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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...
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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...
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on as steam pipe explodes beneath Fifth Avenue". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 3, 2020. Dwyer, Jim (November 14, 2007). "An Infamous Explosion, and...
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