Definition of Live steam

1. Noun. Steam coming from a boiler at full pressure.

Generic synonyms: Steam

Lexicographical Neighbors of Live Steam

live load
live loads
live oak
live off
live off the land
live on
live on the edge
live on top of one another
live one
live ones
live oral poliovirus vaccine
live out
live over
live pair
live paycheck to paycheck
live steam (current term)
live the dream
live up
live up to
live vaccine
live vaccines
live weight
live wire
live wires
live with
liveabilities
liveability
liveable
liveaboard
liveaboards

Literary usage of Live steam

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1906)
"Can a direct-pressure, water-return, steam-heating plant be made to pay, using live steam exclusively, where the average cost of coal to the consumer is ..."

2. Biennial Report by Nebraska Roads and Irrigation Dept (1906)
"there is steam wasted during the electrical peak and live steam must be put into the heating plant during the morning hours. ..."

3. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1917)
"The function 'of a live- steam heater and purifier is primarily that of purification and hence ... 355 shows a section through a Hoppes live-steam purifier. ..."

4. Steam, Its Generation and Use by Babcock & Wilcox Company (1913)
"The so-called live steam purifiers are open heaters, the water being raised to the boiling temperature and the carbonates and a portion of the sulphates ..."

5. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1910)
"Live-Steam Separators. General. — The function of a steam separator is the removal of entrained water from steam. Unless a boiler is liberally provided with ..."

6. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1913)
"Live-steam Separators. General.—The function of a steam s rator is the removal of entrained water from steam. Unless a boiler is liberally provided with ..."

7. Steam Power Plant Auxiliaries and Accessories by Terrell Croft (1922)
"A Live-Steam Separator (Fig. 369) is a device for removing entrained water from the ... Live-Steam And Exhaust-Steam Separators Installed In Engine Piping. ..."

8. Steam Power Plants, Their Design and Construction by Henry Coddington Meyer (1912)
"Purifying by live steam. — A live-steam purifier is a device similar in a general way to most open-type feed-water heaters in that it consists of a shell ..."

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