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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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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A 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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Fire tubes Vertical fire-tube boiler Vertical boiler with horizontal fire-tubes Water tubes Vertical cross-tube boiler Field-tube boiler Thimble tube...
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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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(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 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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one of the boiler's main advantages, compared to vertical boilers with multiple fire-tubes. Erosion there took place on the thin-walled tubes and was a...
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boilers like the Thornycroft where the tubes first travelled horizontally or upwards. The eventual method was to use 'bullet' brushes that were fired...
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Fire-tube Fire-tube boiler A boiler where the primary heating surface is tubes with hot gas flowing inside and water outside. See also: water-tube boiler...
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The Yarrow boiler design is characteristic of the three-drum boiler: two banks of straight water-tubes are arranged in a triangular row with a single furnace...
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a form of water-tube boiler. The characteristic feature of this boiler are its 'thimble tubes'. These are short horizontal water tubes, closed at one end...
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Heat recovery steam generator (redirect from Heat-recovery boiler)
categorized into vertical and horizontal types. In horizontal type HRSGs, exhaust gas flows horizontally over vertical tubes whereas in vertical type HRSGs...
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The first recovery boilers had horizontal evaporator surfaces, followed by superheaters and more evaporation surfaces. These boilers resembled the state-of-the-art...
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Spiral water-tube boilers are a family of vertical water-tube boilers. Their steam generating tubes are narrow spiral tubes, arranged in circular fashion...
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Stationary steam engine (redirect from Horizontal steam engine)
Undertype engines are distinguished by having a locomotive-style boiler over top of a horizontal engine. Stationary engines may be classified by secondary characteristics...
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Stephenson's Rocket (category All articles with dead external links)
twin flues). Rocket had 25 copper fire-tubes that carried the hot exhaust gas from the firebox, through the wet boiler to the blast pipe and chimney. This...
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Steam locomotive components (category Articles with short description)
water. Flues are larger in diameter than tubes because they contain superheater units.: 87 Boiler Horizontal tubular vessel, strong enough to contain...
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Industrial furnace (redirect from Fired Heater)
tubes and causes small isolated spots of very high temperature. This is a series of tubes horizontal/ vertical hairpin type connected at ends (with 180°...
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water-tubes that are around 3¼ inches (83 mm) in diameter. The tubes are arranged in near-vertical banks between a number of cylindrical, horizontal steam...
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Marine steam engine (redirect from Vertical beam)
stood vertically between this pair of levers at one end, with the piston rod attached to a horizontal crosshead above, from each end of which a vertical rod...
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Firebox (steam engine) (category Steam boiler components)
water in the boiler. Most are somewhat box-shaped, hence the name. The hot gases generated in the firebox are pulled through a rack of tubes running through...
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Thermal power station (category Articles with short description)
make-up water to the boiler will form deposits on the tube water surfaces which will lead to overheating and failure of the tubes. Thus, the salts have...
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Rocket mass heater (category Articles with short description)
batch-fed horizontal firebox called "batch box", which feeds into the vertical heat riser or secondary combustion chamber. Compared to a conventional J-tube style...
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Air preheater (category Articles with short description)
preheater tubes and at other end the heated air from inside of the tubes emerges into another set of ducting, which carries it to the boiler furnace for...
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Novelty (locomotive) (category Articles with short description)
page, sticking out to the right, with the vertical chimney attached to it. Within the horizontal section was a tube carrying the hot gases, this formed...
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Pulverizer (category Articles with short description)
and tube mills are low-speed machines that grind the coal with steel balls in a rotating horizontal cylinder. Due to its shape, it is called a tube mill...
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Steam locomotive (category All articles with dead external links)
locations with steep slopes it may be more appropriate to consider a vertical boiler or one mounted such that the boiler remains horizontal but the wheels...
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Doble steam car (category Articles with short description)
heated the feedwater contained in vertical grids of tubes welded to horizontal headers. The steam-raising part of the boiler was partitioned off by a wall...
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Water heating (redirect from Combi-boiler)
Volume storage water heaters in Spain are typically horizontal. In India, they are mainly vertical. In apartments they can be mounted in the ceiling space...
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