Sentence examples for set of valves from inspiring English sources

An expensive mishap on the track cost him a set of valves, which helped the lesson sink in.

Shortly after this fine was imposed, engineers at the reactor noticed a problem with a set of valves, and rushed to replace them before an N.R.C. inspection.

The blowout preventer — a giant set of valves on the ocean floor — failed to work, and oil began spurting into the gulf at a rate recently estimated at 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day.

The third act has seen various containment systems deployed in order to get oil and gas out of the blowout preventer, the damaged set of valves that sits on the sea bed on top of the well, and into various vessels up above.

But five weeks after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig sank, it seems possible that the rate at which oil is going into the ocean, if not the rate at which it is coming out, might be coming under control.On May 26th BP, the company responsible for the well that Deepwater Horizon had drilled, started to pump heavy drilling mud into the well's blowout preventer, a set of valves on the sea floor.

They are ignited using a spark and exhaust through a second set of valves.

This was to obviate the need for an inaccessible middle set of valve gear between the frames.

The inside cylinder was to be actuated by Holcroft's design of conjugated valve gear, which consisted of mechanical links fitted to both sets of outside Walschaerts gear, eliminating the need for a separate set of valve gear between the frames to operate the inside cylinder.

The prototype was designed with six sets of valves and bellows.

In contrast to this gradual progression of developmental time-scale in zebrafish, the Drosophila heart develops more quickly in that the heart already forms sets of valves during embryogenesis and operates similar to the human heart.

This model is defined by 1) its connection scheme; 2) the pressure heads at all external nodes, v0, v1, v2; 3) the resistance to flow along each pipe link, r0, r1, r2; and 4) the on/off setting of valves s1, s2.