bread production and steam

bread production and steam

Did you know that steam is used extensively in commercial bakeries to produce bread? Steam is critical to the proving stage of bread production, as well as ensuring that there is a nice glossy crusty crust on your bread. Steammain looks at the ingredients, the...
Steam injection and the Dutch Schoonebeek oil field

Steam injection and the Dutch Schoonebeek oil field

The oil price is a regular news item, so we thought we would write an article on steam and an enhanced oil recovery plant. Few people think of the Netherlands as oil country, however Schoonebeek was the largest onshore oil field in western Europe when it was...
future of concentrated solar power plants

future of concentrated solar power plants

Following on from our last article on concentrating solar thermal power plants, this article will look at the impact that these plants could have in the future. To generate efficient electricity on a large scale the solar radiation from the sun needs to be...
sand oil extraction and steam

sand oil extraction and steam

Oil sand is a type of sand permeated with natural bitumen, a type of petroleum which has the consistency of butter. The oil can be separated from the sand and then heated so that it can flow in pipelines or be tankered to a refinery. In the past decade high oil prices...
steam and aerated concrete building blocks

steam and aerated concrete building blocks

Aerated concrete blocks, are very popular in the building industry. Most new homes built in the United Kingdom use them in their construction and they are used extensively worldwide. The usual building construction mode being a brick outer wall, cavity (which may be...