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  2. Vertical boiler with horizontal fire-tubes - Wikipedia

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    Cochran boiler. 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 many narrow fire-tubes, running horizontally. Boilers like this have been widely used on ships as either auxiliary or donkey boilers.

  3. Vertical fire-tube boiler - Wikipedia

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    These boilers were not common, owing to drawbacks with excessive wear in service. The more common form of vertical boiler, [2] which was very similar in external appearance, instead used a single flue and water-filled cross-tubes. Another form used horizontal fire-tubes, even where this added complexity, such as the Cochran boiler.

  4. Vertical boiler - Wikipedia

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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. Vertical boilers were used for a variety of steam -powered vehicles and other mobile machines, including early steam locomotives .

  5. Boiler design - Wikipedia

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    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 in a boiler can be used for a variety of purposes including space heating, sterilisation, drying, humidification and power generation. The temperature or condition of steam required for ...

  6. Flued boiler - Wikipedia

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    A shell or flued boiler is an early and relatively simple form of boiler used to make steam, usually for the purpose of driving a steam engine. The design marked a transitional stage in boiler development, between the early haystack boilers and the later multi-tube fire-tube boilers .

  7. Package boiler - Wikipedia

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    Internal layout of a three-pass fire-tube boiler. Package boilers are commonly called water or fire tube Boilers. Water tube boilers use convection heating, which draws the heat from the fire source, and passes against the generating tubes of the boiler, causing water inside those tubes to boil off into steam.

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    New research published on Thursday finds that kettlebell training may help reduce inflammation and increase muscle strength as we age — even without a history of being physically active.. If you ...

  9. Water-tube boiler - Wikipedia

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    The only railway use of water-tube boilers in any numbers was the Brotan boiler, invented by Johann Brotan in Austria in 1902, and found in rare examples throughout Europe, although Hungary was a keen user and had around 1,000 of them. Like the Baldwin, it combined a water-tube firebox with a fire-tube barrel.