• Thumbnail for Boiler
    A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated. The fluid does not necessarily boil. The heated or vaporized fluid exits the boiler...
    30 KB (4,070 words) - 04:46, 11 August 2024
  • In business, a boiler room is an outbound call center selling questionable investments by telephone. It usually refers to a room where salespeople work...
    19 KB (2,129 words) - 15:59, 2 June 2024
  • "The Boiler" is a single by Rhoda Dakar with The Special AKA (The Specials). It was released in January 1982 on 2 Tone Records. "The Boiler" is about a...
    8 KB (982 words) - 01:45, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boiler explosion
    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...
    37 KB (4,545 words) - 22:59, 8 August 2024
  • Look up boiler room or boiler rooms in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Boiler room may refer to: Boiler room (building), a room or space in a building...
    733 bytes (142 words) - 03:53, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Water-tube boiler
    A 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...
    18 KB (2,173 words) - 22:08, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boiler Room (music broadcaster)
    Boiler Room is an online music broadcaster and club promoter based in London, United Kingdom. It hosts predominantly dance music events, focusing on underground...
    30 KB (2,553 words) - 15:42, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Horsepower
    Horsepower (redirect from Boiler horsepower)
    days of steam use, the boiler horsepower was roughly comparable to the horsepower of engines fed by the boiler. The term "boiler horsepower" was originally...
    47 KB (5,488 words) - 07:42, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boiler (power generation)
    A boiler or steam generator is a device used to create steam by applying heat energy to water. Although the definitions are somewhat flexible, it can be...
    25 KB (3,601 words) - 15:13, 20 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fire-tube boiler
    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 a...
    29 KB (3,645 words) - 13:53, 5 August 2024
  • Condensing boilers are water heaters typically used for heating systems that are fueled by gas or oil. When operated in the correct circumstances, a heating...
    19 KB (2,700 words) - 20:46, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Recovery boiler
    Recovery boiler is the part of kraft process of pulping where chemicals for white liquor are recovered and reformed from black liquor, which contains lignin...
    27 KB (3,751 words) - 22:29, 27 March 2024
  • Boiler Room is a 2000 American crime drama film written and directed by Ben Younger, and starring Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Ben Affleck, Nicky...
    22 KB (2,241 words) - 23:12, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boiler blowdown
    the boiler with some force by steam pressure within the boiler. Bottom blowdown used with early boilers caused abrupt downward adjustment of boiler water...
    6 KB (787 words) - 21:33, 5 July 2023
  • An electrode boiler (jet type) is a type of boiler that uses electricity flowing through streams of water to create steam. The conductive and resistive...
    4 KB (454 words) - 03:25, 31 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hand boiler
    A hand boiler or (less commonly) love meter is a glass sculpture used as an experimental tool to demonstrate vapour-liquid equilibrium, or as a collector's...
    6 KB (799 words) - 01:12, 10 April 2024
  • An electric boiler is a device that uses electrical energy to boil water instead of fossil fuels used in traditional gas or oil boilers. There are different...
    7 KB (929 words) - 12:59, 1 May 2024
  • A chiller boiler system includes a chiller, a boiler, pumps and HVAC controls in a single pre-engineered package. This reduces complexity for the field...
    1 KB (180 words) - 04:48, 16 August 2024
  • The ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC) is an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) standard that regulates the design and construction...
    27 KB (3,152 words) - 20:40, 7 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boiler water
    for use in boilers, treated boiler feedwater, steam condensate being returned to a boiler, or boiler blowdown being removed from a boiler. Impurities...
    9 KB (1,179 words) - 23:39, 5 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Boilersuit
    Boilersuit (redirect from Boiler suit)
    A boilersuit (or boiler suit), also known as coveralls, is a loose fitting garment covering the whole body except for the head, hands and feet. The term...
    6 KB (675 words) - 03:59, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boiler feedwater
    Boiler feedwater is the water which is supplied to a boiler. The feed water is put into the steam drum from a feed pump. In the steam drum the feed water...
    13 KB (1,693 words) - 06:49, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flash boiler
    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...
    4 KB (453 words) - 03:13, 25 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flued boiler
    transitional stage in boiler development, between the early haystack boilers and the later multi-tube fire-tube boilers. A flued boiler is characterized by...
    19 KB (2,299 words) - 10:37, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steam locomotive
    (usually coal, oil or, rarely, wood) to heat water in the locomotive's boiler to the point where it becomes gaseous and its volume increases 1,700 times...
    146 KB (17,879 words) - 11:45, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Three-drum boiler
    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...
    39 KB (4,848 words) - 18:29, 29 July 2024
  • In a water boiler, draft is the difference between atmospheric pressure and the pressure existing in the furnace or flue gas passage. Draft can also be...
    3 KB (482 words) - 04:41, 7 August 2024
  • Look up boiler in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Boiler may refer to: Boiler, a device for heating, but not necessarily boiling, water Boiler (power...
    485 bytes (97 words) - 10:04, 4 November 2019
  • Thumbnail for Jointed-boiler locomotive
    A jointed-boiler locomotive was a variant of the Mallet articulated locomotive, in which a flexible coupling was introduced midway along the length of...
    4 KB (510 words) - 15:28, 19 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boilermaker
    Boilermaker (redirect from Boiler-maker)
    or copper into boilers and other large containers intended to hold hot gas or liquid, as well as maintains and repairs boilers and boiler systems. Although...
    9 KB (966 words) - 23:32, 3 August 2024