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11.10 NESTLER BOILERS

This is fire tube type of fired horizontal axis boiler. Figure 11.11 shows the schematic arrangement in Nestler boiler. The
boiler shell comprising of two thick mild steel plates with large number of fire tubes fitted between two plates is shown
here. A bigger diameter furnace tube extending from burner end to other end is used for carrying hot flue gases from
one smoke box to the other smoke box. At the rear end smoke box chimney is provided for rejection of exhaust gases.

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Hot gases pass through furnace tube and enter into rear end smoke box and pass through fire tubes to front end
smoke box for final discharge through chimney. Water surrounding tubes get trans- formed into steam and gets
collected in steam space. Here furnace oil, a dark coloured highly viscous oil is used for firing in furnace. Oil is first
heated up to 80°C by electric heater before being supplied to burner for injection into furnace tube. Blower is employed
for atomization of furnace oil into furnace. Such boilers are capable of generating steam upto pressure of 10–11 bar.