Note that for a given steam header pressure (P1) the rate of steam flow through the pipe reaches steady-state conditions for long pipes. In other words, the flow is choked.

A large central steam plant served a new hospital and also maintained the ability to back feed into the city’s district steam system. 130-pound steam was produced and made available in the large steam ...

When the steam leaves the boiler, it zooms around the pipes with speeds up to 60 miles per hour looking for someplace cold to surrender its latent heat and revert back to a liquid. Once it converts ...