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  • 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...
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    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
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    A package boiler is a factory-made boiler. Package boilers are available in a range of standard designs. Package boilers are used for heating and act as...
    9 KB (1,171 words) - 08:54, 5 September 2024
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    The Sentinel boiler was a design of vertical boiler, fitted to the numerous steam wagons built by the Sentinel Waggon Works. The boiler was carefully designed...
    10 KB (1,123 words) - 10:11, 23 March 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
  • A boiler feedwater pump is a specific type of pump used to pump feedwater into a steam boiler. The water may be freshly supplied or returning condensate...
    4 KB (506 words) - 20:59, 8 January 2024
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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...
    9 KB (998 words) - 02:04, 21 January 2021
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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...
    39 KB (4,848 words) - 18:29, 29 July 2024
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    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 Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company
    The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB) is a global specialty insurer and reinsurer headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut. It...
    8 KB (908 words) - 14:06, 15 May 2024
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    The Stirling boiler is an early form of water-tube boiler, used to generate steam in large land-based stationary plants. Although widely used around 1900...
    10 KB (1,265 words) - 00:32, 7 June 2024
  • devices and combustion plant like boilers and gasifiers. In flow measurement, the turndown ratio indicates the range of flow that a flow meter is able...
    7 KB (1,071 words) - 00:43, 3 January 2021
  • 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
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    The Johnson boiler is a water-tube boiler used for ship propulsion. The Johnson design was developed by the British engineer J. Johnson in the late 1920s...
    6 KB (706 words) - 13:44, 17 February 2024
  • A pulverized coal-fired boiler is an industrial or utility boiler that generates thermal energy by burning pulverized coal (also known as powdered coal...
    6 KB (864 words) - 14:03, 17 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Forced circulation boiler
    circulation boiler is a boiler where a pump is used to circulate water inside the boiler. This differs from a natural circulation boiler which relies...
    7 KB (1,015 words) - 02:28, 20 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Thermal power station
    the boiler tubes near the boiler perimeter. The water circulation rate in the boiler is three to four times the throughput. As the water in the boiler circulates...
    48 KB (6,493 words) - 13:00, 2 September 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 Steam engine
    steam to atmosphere will typically have an efficiency (including the boiler) in the range of 1–10%. However, with the addition of a condenser, Corliss valves...
    78 KB (9,740 words) - 00:07, 11 September 2024
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    meals would have been eaten in the main kitchen, equipped with an early range, boiler and hot air oven. Upstairs is a main bedroom and a second bedroom for...
    85 KB (11,327 words) - 16:11, 30 August 2024
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