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    Work From Steam

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    Work is done by the expansion or contraction of pressurized gas or vapor. In a steam cylinder, work is related to pressure and volume changes. Originally in atmospheric engines, the pressure difference driving the piston was essentially constant, being the difference between atmospheric and saturation pressures. However, after Evans' engine development, work came from pressurized steam instead of the atmosphere, so the net pressure difference was variable during the power stroke, requiring integration of pressure and volume to calculate work. Additionally, engine speeds were increasing, making direct pressure measurement difficult, necessitating a device to measure pressure and volume simultaneously.

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    Work is done by the expansion or contraction of pressurized gas or vapor. In a steam cylinder, work is related to pressure and volume changes. Originally in atmospheric engines, the pressure difference driving the piston was essentially constant, being the difference between atmospheric and saturation pressures. However, after Evans' engine development, work came from pressurized steam instead of the atmosphere, so the net pressure difference was variable during the power stroke, requiring integration of pressure and volume to calculate work. Additionally, engine speeds were increasing, making direct pressure measurement difficult, necessitating a device to measure pressure and volume simultaneously.

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    Work is done by the expansion or contraction of pressurized gas or vapor. In a steam cylinder, work is related to pressure and volume changes. Originally in atmospheric engines, the pressure difference driving the piston was essentially constant, being the difference between atmospheric and saturation pressures. However, after Evans' engine development, work came from pressurized steam instead of the atmosphere, so the net pressure difference was variable during the power stroke, requiring integration of pressure and volume to calculate work. Additionally, engine speeds were increasing, making direct pressure measurement difficult, necessitating a device to measure pressure and volume simultaneously.

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    Work From Steam

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    Work is done by the expansion or contraction of pressurized gas or vapor. In a steam cylinder, work is related to pressure and volume changes. Originally in atmospheric engines, the pressure difference driving the piston was essentially constant, being the difference between atmospheric and saturation pressures. However, after Evans' engine development, work came from pressurized steam instead of the atmosphere, so the net pressure difference was variable during the power stroke, requiring integration of pressure and volume to calculate work. Additionally, engine speeds were increasing, making direct pressure measurement difficult, necessitating a device to measure pressure and volume simultaneously.

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    Work from Steam

    Work is the expansion (or contraction) of a pressurized gas or vapor. From the
    perspective of a steam cylinder, work is related to pressure P and volume ¦.
    Work = F_x = .Pnet Apiston• . _¦
    Apiston
    . = Pnet_¦
    Pnet is the net pressure di_erence across the piston. For
    the atmospheric engines, the pressure di_erence across the
    slow moving cylinders was equal to Patmospheric − Psaturation
    which was essentially constant. Psaturation is the pressure
    at which the steam condenses (or evaporates).
    Work = (Patm − Psat)_¦
    = (Patm − Psat)Apiston_x
    The work extracted from the atmosphere could be mea-
    sured by the force F exerted from the piston and the piston
    displacement _x during the power stroke.
    x
    (1 )
    (2 )
    vapor
    After Evan's engine development, the work was extracted from pressurized steam
    instead of the atmosphere. Thus, the net pressure di_erence, Psteam − Patm was
    not constant during the power stroke and the work during a power stroke required
    integration of the pressure and volume.
    W=S
    2
    1
    Pnetd¦
    In addition, the speed of the engines was getting faster; too fast to watch a pressure
    gauge or manometer and record the pressures as a function of piston position. Some
    sort of device was needed to measure pressure and volume and correlate the two

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