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    A fire-tube boiler is a type of boiler invented in 1828 by Marc Seguin, in which hot gases pass from a fire through one or more tubes running through...
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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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    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 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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    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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    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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  • A pulverized coal-fired boiler is an industrial or utility boiler that generates thermal energy by burning pulverized coal (also known as powdered coal...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Steam engine (category Articles with short description)
    types are: Water-tube boiler Water is passed through tubes surrounded by hot gas. Fire-tube boiler Hot gas is passed through tubes immersed in water...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Leidenfrost effect (category Articles with short description)
    {{D}_{o}}} is the outside diameter of the tube. The correlation constant C is 0.62 for horizontal cylinders and vertical plates, and 0.67 for spheres. Vapor...
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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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    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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  • called a primary superheater. A separately fired superheater is a superheater that is placed outside the main boiler and has its own separate combustion system...
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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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    French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme (category Ships with Admiralty direct-tube boilers)
    the centre shaft. Steam for the engines was provided by 11 Amirauté fire-tube boilers and they were rated at a total of 14,000 metric horsepower (10,000 kW)...
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