A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 296
d sufficient fallfor the main. When steam is generated in the boiler it isforced into the steam main, from there into the risers, andthence into the radiators. The air which the pipes containis forced out of the system to the atmosphere through airvents placed upon each radiator at the end opposite… … This condensed steam will fall by gravity to the bottom ofthe steam main, flow to its lower end /, and enter the bot-tom of the boiler through the return pipe g. 151. The water of condensation from the radiators firstaccumulates in the base of the radiators until a sufificienthydrostatic head is…
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