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    A fire-tube boiler is a type of boiler invented in 1828 by Mark Seguin, in which hot gases pass from a fire through one or more tubes running through...
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    watertube boiler (also spelled water-tube and water tube) is a type of boiler in which water circulates in tubes heated externally by fire. Fuel is burned...
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    cylindrical wrought iron horizontal boiler into which was incorporated a single fire tube, at one end of which was placed the fire grate. The gas flow was then...
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    Flued boiler With one or two large flues—an early type or forerunner of fire-tube boiler. Fire-tube boiler Here, water partially fills a boiler barrel...
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  • Boiler tubes are used in: Fire-tube boiler, a type of boiler in which hot gases from a fire pass through one or more tubes running through a sealed container...
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    vertical fire-tube boiler or vertical multitubular boiler is a vertical boiler where the heating surface is composed of multiple small fire-tubes, arranged...
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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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    part of the boiler shell. Above this are many small-diameter fire-tubes. Gases and smoke from the furnace pass to the back of the boiler, then return...
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    boiler. Package boilers are commonly called water or fire tube boilers. Water tube boilers use convection heating, which draws the heat from the fire...
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  • (1901). Water-tube boilers. p. 38. "One Atmosphere Boiler - Superheated Steam Boiler". Micropyretics Heaters Industrial. Harris, Model Boilers, pp. 63–64...
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    A vertical boiler with horizontal fire-tubes is a type of small vertical boiler, used to generate steam for small machinery. It is characterised by having...
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    High-pressure steam locomotive (category Water-tube boilers)
    72 MPa). The UHP and HP boilers were of a water-tube design, while the LP boiler was a fire-tube boiler typical for steam locomotives. The LP cylinders...
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  • water-tube boilers, carrying unheated cold water from the steam drum down to the water drum as part of the circulation path. Drowned tube Either a fire-tube...
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  • A Field-tube boiler (also known as a bayonet tube) is a form of water-tube boiler where the water tubes are single-ended. The tubes are closed at one...
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    A vertical boiler is a type of fire-tube or water-tube boiler where the boiler barrel is oriented vertically instead of the more common horizontal orientation...
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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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    Three-drum boilers are a class of water-tube boiler used to generate steam, typically to power ships. They are compact and of high evaporative power, factors...
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    the du Temple boiler. These differed from locomotive boilers, also known as "fire tube boilers", in that, whereas the fire tube boiler consisted of a...
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    Firebox (steam engine) (category Steam boiler components)
    pulled through a rack of tubes running through the boiler. In the standard steam locomotive fire-tube boiler, the firebox is surrounded by water space on five...
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    A boiler explosion is a catastrophic failure of a boiler. There are two types of boiler explosions. One type is a failure of the pressure parts of the...
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    Yarrow boilers are an important class of high-pressure water-tube boilers. They were developed by Yarrow & Co. (London), Shipbuilders and Engineers and...
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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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    range of boiler designs, but all with water-tubes. Straker boiler a direct precursor of the Sentinel Robertson boiler a comparable fire-tube design Sentinel-Doble...
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  • after several serious explosions in the state of Massachusetts. A fire-tube boiler exploded at the Grover Shoe Factory in Brockton, Massachusetts, on...
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    A flash boiler is a type of water-tube boiler. The tubes are close together and water is pumped through them. A flash boiler differs from the type of monotube...
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  • A pulverized coal-fired boiler is an industrial or utility boiler that generates thermal energy by burning pulverized coal (also known as powdered coal...
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    Kewanee was once known for its fire-tube boiler industry. The Kewanee Boiler Corporation manufactured and sold boilers throughout the world for over one...
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    diesel-electric locomotive. The fire-tube boiler was standard practice for steam locomotive.[why?] Although other types of boiler were evaluated they were not...
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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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    contemporary boiler, such as the Yarrow. Small examples of the O-type are used as some package boilers. Most package boilers are fire-tube boilers, often used...
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