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Boilers
Boilers
Steam generators
Closed vessels
made of steel and
used for generation of steam
vaporizing water
combustion of fuels
eg. coal,coke,oil,wood,saw dust and begesse etc.
Steam used for producing power,for industrial
process work or for heating proposes.
Requirements of a Perfect
Steam Boilers
Classification of Steam
Boilers
Vertical or Horizontal
Stationary(Power plant,industrial,central heating and combined
power and heating boilers.),Portable,Locomotive or Marine
Internally Fired or Externally Fired (Lancashire and Locomotive
Boilers)
Solid,Liquid or Gas Fired
Fire(Smoke)Tube:Water is outside the tubes while the hot gases are
inside the tubes
eg.Vertical,Cochran,Lancashire,Cornish,Locomotives,etc) or Water
Tube: Contain a large number of small tubes through which water
circulates,the fire and hot gases being outside of the
tubes.eg.Babcock and Wilcox, Stirling and High pressure Boilers
etc.)
Vertical Boilers
Cochran Boiler
Lancashire Boiler
Locomotive Boiler
Stirling Boiler
Once-Through Forced
Circulation Boiler
Ramzin Boiler
Loeffler Boiler
Velox boiler