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  • 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) - 21:10, 20 March 2024
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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...
    37 KB (4,564 words) - 04:12, 2 April 2024
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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) - 13:44, 17 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scotch marine boiler
    A "Scotch" marine boiler (or simply Scotch boiler) is a design of steam boiler best known for its use on ships. The general layout is that of a squat horizontal...
    14 KB (1,597 words) - 21:16, 21 April 2024
  • Boilers for generating steam or hot water have been designed in countless shapes, sizes and configurations. An extensive terminology has evolved to describe...
    21 KB (2,419 words) - 21:08, 7 January 2023
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    be the result of an incorrectly repaired boiler exploding, which led to the explosion of two of the three other boilers. On 18 June 2023, the submersible...
    18 KB (2,127 words) - 16:51, 5 May 2024
  • about 150 workers returned to the engine and boiler rooms of the vessel after their lunch break for repair and cleaning work. A number of the ship's 32...
    7 KB (570 words) - 07:27, 18 March 2024
  • with boiler installation and maintenance services. After the collapse of Connaught in September 2010, the company was asked to provide emergency repair and...
    8 KB (901 words) - 22:39, 8 February 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 design
    Boiler design is the process of designing boilers used for various purposes. The main function of a boiler is to heat water to generate steam. Steam produced...
    4 KB (503 words) - 20:53, 14 March 2023
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    Sultana (steamboat) (category Maritime boiler explosions)
    one of Sultana's four boilers sprang a leak. Under reduced pressure, the steamboat limped into Vicksburg to get the boiler repaired and to pick up her promised...
    38 KB (4,603 words) - 16:07, 3 March 2024
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    and repairing machinery and equipment, including pumps, conveyors, and other mechanical systems. Heavy equipment mechanics specialize in repairing and...
    6 KB (567 words) - 08:33, 6 June 2024
  • The National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors (NBBI) is composed of chief boiler and pressure vessel inspectors representing states, cities...
    5 KB (613 words) - 12:19, 5 June 2024
  • meals, maintaining the prison grounds, laundering inmate clothing, repairing boilers and conducting clerical work. On occasion, inmates are involved in...
    31 KB (3,902 words) - 19:29, 20 January 2024
  • Coleman, was an engineer who worked two jobs in shipbuilding and repairing boilers. The family relocated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where they lived...
    16 KB (1,476 words) - 03:49, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electric steam boiler
    steam boiler is a type of boiler where the steam is generated using electricity, rather than through the combustion of a fuel source. Such boilers are used...
    7 KB (941 words) - 12:20, 20 October 2023
  • GWR 2884 Class 2-8-0 Emerged from its 10-year overhaul in January 2018. Boiler ticket expires 2027. Re-entered service April 2024. BR Unlined Black with...
    24 KB (299 words) - 19:26, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for SR Merchant Navy class
    economies. In addition, the locomotives featured thermic syphons in their boilers and the controversial Bulleid chain-driven valve gear. The class members...
    58 KB (6,088 words) - 14:03, 3 June 2024
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    must be built to a formal code. In the United States that code is the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC). In Europe the code is the Pressure Equipment...
    47 KB (6,155 words) - 17:35, 30 May 2024
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    his assistant Neil Carney, he spent six months repairing the engine. The two sourced a replacement boiler from a local pork pie factory and re-installed...
    60 KB (8,019 words) - 10:56, 20 May 2024
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