enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. List of boiler types by manufacturer - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_boiler_types_by...

   Spanner boilers were also known for their use as train-heating boilers. spherical boiler: [55] Stanley steam-car boiler: an extremely compact vertical multitubular fire-tube boiler, used in the Stanley steam car. Steam generator: modern boilers, with very small volume in relation to their heating area. Boiling is thus almost instantaneous and ...

3. List of Illinois companies - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Illinois_companies

   companies in Illinois according to revenues with State and U.S. rankings: State rank Corporation US rank 1: Archer Daniels Midland: 27 2: Boeing: 30 3: Walgreen: 37 4 ...

4. Combustion Engineering - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combustion_Engineering

   C-E was one of the major suppliers of boilers for US Navy steam-powered warships, including Liberty ships during World War II. Amongst many other warships, all of the 46 Knox-class frigates built during the 1960s and 1970s were equipped with a 1,200-pound-per-square-inch (8,300 kPa) C-E power plant.

5. Category:Manufacturing companies based in Illinois - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Manufacturing...

   Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Illinois (1 C, 50 P) Pages in category "Manufacturing companies based in Illinois" The following 85 pages are in this category, out of 85 total.

6. Boiler (power generation) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiler_(power_generation)

   It passes below the critical point as it does work in a high-pressure turbine and enters the generator's condenser. This results in slightly less fuel use and therefore less greenhouse gas production. The term "boiler" should not be used for a supercritical pressure steam generator, as no "boiling" actually occurs in this device.

7. Scotch marine boiler - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_marine_boiler

   It lasted from the end of the low-pressure haystack boilers in the mid-19th century through to the early 20th century and the advent of steam turbines with high-pressure water-tube boilers such as the Yarrow. Large or fast ships could require a great many boilers. The Titanic had 29 boilers: 24 double-ended and 5 smaller single-ended. The ...

8. Launch-type boiler - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch-type_boiler

   A launch-type, gunboat or horizontal multitubular boiler [1] is a form of small steam boiler. It consists of a cylindrical horizontal shell with a cylindrical furnace and fire-tubes within this. Their name derives from the boiler's popular use at one time for small steam yachts and launches .

9. Water-tube boiler - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-tube_boiler

   A high pressure watertube boiler [1] (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 inside the furnace , creating hot gas which boils water in the steam-generating tubes.