To make such an engine work, valves are required to allow steam to flow into alternating sides of the piston to let it reciprocate continuously. A simple slide valve is used, allowing steam to ...

The reciprocating engine has been all the rage for at least three centuries. The first widely adopted engine of this type was the steam engine ... of doing useful work like this engine fitted ...

THE purpose of the authors in producing this book has been to provide an elementary treatise on the kinematics of reciprocating steam engines and ... and Bilgram valve diagrams are described ...

is developing 100-kW-scale electrical power-generation systems that use the sun to superheat water into steam, which then runs reciprocating steam engines ... which the working fluid circulates.