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    A Velox boiler is a turbocharged, forced circulation, water-tube boiler which utilises an axial flow compressor and a gas turbine. Velox (Latin: "fast")...
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  • There have been a vast number of designs of steam boiler, particularly towards the end of the 19th century when the technology was evolving rapidly. A...
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  • Velox boiler, a forced-circulation boiler Velox photographic paper, invented by Leo Baekeland in 1893 Velox (fireboat), a New York City fireboat Velox (mantis)...
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    and Lamont and Velox boilers present the same advantages. Steam boilers are used where steam and hot steam is needed. Hence, steam boilers are used as generators...
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    Velox boilersVelox boilers use an axial flow air compressor driven by a flue-gas turbine to allow rapid heating of a steam boiler. The first Velox boiler...
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    than requiring an impractical pump. Forced-circulation boilers with pumps, such as the Velox, did not appear for another thirty years and even then they...
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    to the development, by Brown Boveri, of the commercially successful Velox boilers, which in turn led to the development of the first modern industrial...
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    compressor and turbine turbosets as part of the turbocharged steam generating Velox boiler. Following the gas turbine principle, the steam evaporation tubes are...
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    Corporation (SNOC). pp. 26–27. Noack, Walter G (1941). "Pressure Charging, Velox Boiler and Gas Turbine, a review of their origin and development by Brown Boveri"...
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    Babcock & Wilcox pulverized fuel boilers, each produced 300,000lbs/hr of steam at 600psi. In 1949, two oil fired, Velox boilers from Gibson, Battle & Co Pty...
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    HMS Velox (D34) was a V-class destroyer built in 1918. She served in the last year of the First World War and was engaged in the Second Ostend Raid. During...
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    except in Vimy, Vanoc, Velox, Versatile and Vortigern in which only the forward bank was replaced. Vanquisher, Vanoc, Velox, Vehement, Venturous, Versatile...
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  • Vanwall (1954–1960) Vapomobile (1902–1904) Vee Gee (1913) Veloce (circa 1900) Velox (1902–1904) Victor (1916–1920) Vulcan (1902–1928) Warfield (1903) (steam)...
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    pounds per hour (82,000 kg/h) of steam supplied by each of the two Velox oil-fired boilers, at 600 psi (4,100 kPa) and 850 °F (454 °C). Although obsolete...
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    the Norwegian barque Velox abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Some of her crew were put aboard with the intention of taking Velox in to Queenstown, County...
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    The engines were powered by sixteen Babcock & Wilcox and six cylindrical boilers. Argyll was the only ship of the class not to exceed 23 knots (43 km/h;...
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    development of a new type of ships equipped with the then-novel water-tube boilers and quick-firing small-calibre guns. Six ships to the specifications circulated...
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  • off Ostend and was now in danger of sinking herself. The destroyer HMS Velox was lashed alongside and survivors from Warwick, Vindictive and ML254 transferred...
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  • founder of serum therapy Leo Baekeland (1863–1944), Belgian–American – Velox photographic paper and Bakelite Ralph H. Baer (1922–2014), German born American...
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    Russian battleship Imperator Nikolai I (1889) (category Ships with Belleville boilers)
    compound steam engines, each driving a single propeller. Twelve cylindrical boilers provided non-superheated steam to the engines. They were built by Baltic...
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    Oct: Iki 17 Oct: Isfahan 23 Oct: Marquette, SMS Prinz Adalbert 25 Oct: HMS Velox 28 Oct: HMS Argyll 31 Oct: HMS Louis Unknown date: USS Stranger Other incidents...
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    steam engines, with steam provided by fourteen coal-fired Dürr water-tube boilers. The engines were rated to produce 16,200 metric horsepower (16,000 ihp)...
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    convoy escort duties there. From 13 to 19 June 1941 she and the destroyers Velox and Wild Swan escorted Convoy WS 9A during the final segment of its voyage...
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    1940 to return to Gibraltar. On 1 February 1940, Wishart and the destroyer Velox escorted Convoy OG 16F on the first leg of its voyage to the United Kingdom...
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    German infantry positions near Riga, and from 3 November, together with Velox and the cruiser Dragon, provided artillery support for a Latvian offensive...
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    French resistance had ended. Meanwhile, two destroyers, HMS Wishart and HMS Velox, had arrived on the night of the 7th and attempted to tow Thomas Stone....
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    launched 6 September 1899, wrecked near Alderney in accident 3 August 1901. Velox (ex-Python), 445 tons, launched 11 February 1902, mined and sunk off Nab...
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    heavily damaged, breaking her back, and had to be towed back to Dover by Velox and Whirlwind. Warwick was present at Scapa Flow in November 1918 when the...
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    which she served for the rest of World War I. Watchman and the destroyer Velox were dispatched from Scapa Flow in late March 1919 to take part in the Freedom...
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  • and launched on 9 July 1910. Propulsion was by two double ended marine boilers providing steam for a set of Parsons turbines driving three shafts. Passenger...
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