 History of steam engine

 Components of steam engine

 Working principle of steam engine
 Advantages & Disadvantages
 Future scope
 Reference and Biblography
 Conclusions
1. Boiler
2. Piston
3. Piston Rod
4. Piston cylinder
5. Connecting Rod
6. Flywheels
7. Bearings
8. Crank shaft
1. A steam engine could be located anywhere
because water is heated in a separate boiler to
produce steam. The steam engine, with its boiler,
could be taken to any place of work
2. A steam engine can be used at any time because
steam can be produced at any time.
3. A steam engine can be used to run trains for going
from one place to.
4. Steam engines can also be in vehicles it does not
pollute the atmosphere
5. The existing energy sources which are available such
as Uranium, Coal, Fuels, Oils etc., may not be
adequate to meet the increasing energy demand
 In the future these trains could come back into common use as oil runs down. As an aside
since these engines are heavier than modern light engines, they are better on the snow!
Then of course there are industrial steam engines (check out tees cottage pumping station for
an example), and these are a bit outdated now - inefficient and hard to maintain but good for
tourism
The last type of steam engine are the hidden types that you might not have thought of - a
nuclear power station!! 90% of all power stations are steam engines - the fuel boils water to
create steam which then drives a turbine to turn a generator and create electricity. The fuel
source can be different - nuclear, coal, oil or gas but they are all steam engines. The waste
steam can be used to heat local buildings - these are called CHP (combined heat and power)
and are more efficient, examples might be a hospital - it generates power and heats the wards
from the same power plant
For large power plant steam engines, there are a lot of future developments. I think there will
be more efficiency savings - using the heat more effectively and more CHP units. There could
be some sort of storage units from the steam (pump steam underground and take it out in the
winter). There will be smaller CHP plants - some talk of these being in the home using
domestic gas supply to make steam, generate electricity and heat the house. These are
happening.
There might be a new source for the heat, so there could be solar powered steam engines
1) Heat Power Engineering II
2) Basic Thermodynamics
3) Wikipedia
4) YouTube
 As you can see the Steam Engine started as a
simple water pump and was formed in power
supplier and eventually into a transportation
system and helped bring about the industrial
revolution. The reason that the Steam Engine was
one of the greatest inventions in history is
because it started out as something as simple as
a water pump could be changed and modified to
efficiently produce power, and power what
basically is a train, and supply power to buildings
and factories during the industrial revolution and
to this day is relied on to power some machines
that we use today.