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    A thimble tube boiler is a form of steam boiler, usually provided as an auxiliary boiler or heat-recovery boiler. They are vertical in orientation and...
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    high pressure watertube boiler (also spelled water-tube and water tube) is a type of boiler in which water circulates in tubes heated externally by fire...
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  • Field tube has also been researched for the transfer of heat from nuclear reactors, vacuum condensers and heat exchangers. The thimble-tube boiler has some...
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  •  &#91, page needed&#93, . "Clarkson Thimble Tube Boiler Co". Grace's Guide. Retrieved 10 April 2018. Harris, Model Boilers, pp. 58–60. Kennedy, Modern Engines...
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  • saturated steam. Thimble tube A form of water-tube where the tube is single-ended; predecessor to the field tube Thermic siphon Three-drum boiler A generic term...
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    Fire tubes Vertical fire-tube boiler Vertical boiler with horizontal fire-tubes Water tubes Vertical cross-tube boiler Field-tube boiler Thimble tube boiler...
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    wagon's overall length available for the useful load. The boiler is a watertube boiler, with these tubes contained within a vertical, cylindrical outer drum...
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    type: Steam (Water-tube boiler) (Clarkson thimble tube boiler) Main generator type: BTH Aux generator type: BTH Gear ratio: 66:15 Boiler water capacity:...
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    transitional stage in boiler development, between the early haystack boilers and the later multi-tube fire-tube boilers. A flued boiler is characterized by...
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    A cross-tube boiler was the most common form of small vertical boiler. They were widely used, in the age of steam, as a small donkey boiler, for the independent...
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    multitubular boiler is a form of small steam boiler. It consists of a cylindrical horizontal shell with a cylindrical furnace and fire-tubes within this...
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    extractor has three main sections: a percolator (boiler and reflux) which circulates the solvent, a thimble (usually made of thick filter paper) which retains...
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    cycle water treatment for the boiler, it may be desirable to avoid tube materials containing copper. Titanium condenser tubes are usually the best technical...
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    Safety valve (category Steam boiler components)
    pressure relief valve (PRV), which automatically releases a substance from a boiler, pressure vessel, or other system, when the pressure or temperature exceeds...
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    plant component used to pre-heat water delivered to a steam generating boiler. Preheating the feedwater reduces the irreversibilities involved in steam...
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    the horses would normally have been. The front wheel supported a steam boiler and driving mechanism. The power unit was articulated to the "trailer",...
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    can be seen working using a hydraulic arrangement instead of the steam boiler. According to Dr. Cyril Boucher of the Newcomen Society, this Newcomen Memorial...
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    and tube heat exchanger installed at the outlet of every steam turbine in thermal power stations. Commonly, the cooling water flows through the tube side...
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    axle. A vertical fire-tube boiler was mounted at the rear with a polished copper casing over the fire box and chimney, the boiler was enclosed in a mahogany...
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    biplane. In the UK, Sentinel Waggon Works developed a vertical water-tube boiler running at 275 psi (1.90 MPa) which was used in road vehicles, shunting...
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    Launch Water-tube boilers Babcock & Wilcox Field-tube Sentinel Stirling Thimble tube Three-drum Yarrow Boiler feed Feedwater heater Feedwater pump Injector...
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    cylinder. Undertype engines are distinguished by having a locomotive-style boiler over top of a horizontal engine. Stationary engines may be classified by...
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    total of 250 bhp. The boiler was relatively high pressure, although typical for Sentinel, using a Woolnough water-tube boiler of 300 psi. One of the...
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    Launch Water-tube boilers Babcock & Wilcox Field-tube Sentinel Stirling Thimble tube Three-drum Yarrow Boiler feed Feedwater heater Feedwater pump Injector...
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    it is compressing any remaining steam. Water can be introduced from the boiler or in a cold engine, steam will condense to water on the cool walls of the...
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    Launch Water-tube boilers Babcock & Wilcox Field-tube Sentinel Stirling Thimble tube Three-drum Yarrow Boiler feed Feedwater heater Feedwater pump Injector...
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  • clay or metal that isolates hot toxic exhaust gases or smoke produced by a boiler, stove, furnace, incinerator, or fireplace from human living areas. Chimneys...
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    suchlike. Initially he appears to have heated coal in a kettle with a thimble over the spout, and ignited the gas so produced. But by 1794 a much larger...
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    Launch Water-tube boilers Babcock & Wilcox Field-tube Sentinel Stirling Thimble tube Three-drum Yarrow Boiler feed Feedwater heater Feedwater pump Injector...
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