enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASME_Boiler_and_Pressure...

    This committee put in the form work for the first edition of the ASME Boiler Code - Rules for the Construction of Stationary Boilers and for the Allowable Working Pressures, which was issued in 1914 and published in 1915. [5] The first edition of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, known as the 1914 edition, was a single 114-page volume.

  3. Boiler - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiler

    Boilers generally have 2 or 3 pressuretrols: a manual-reset pressuretrol, which functions as a safety by setting the upper limit of steam pressure, the operating pressuretrol, which controls when the boiler fires to maintain pressure, and for boilers equipped with a modulating burner, a modulating pressuretrol which controls the amount of fire.

  4. Fire-tube boiler - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-tube_boiler

    By using non-condensing modulating boiler. By setting the controls (thermostats or controller with temperature sensors) with greater temperature differentials between STOP and START. At Non-Condensing Boilers make provisions so that minimum return water temperature of 130 °F (54 °C) to 150 °F (66 °C) to the boiler to avoid fireside corrosion.

  5. List of the United States Army fire control and sighting ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_United_States...

    This is a list of United States Army fire control, and sighting material by supply catalog designation, or Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group "F". The United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalog used an alpha-numeric nomenclature system from about the mid-1920s to about 1958.

  6. Package boiler - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_boiler

    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.

  7. Control and indicating equipment - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_and_Indicating...

    Control and indicating equipment is equipment for receiving, processing, controlling, indicating and initiating the onward transmission of information as used in fire alarm systems. The fire detection and fire alarm system subcommittee of ISO/TC 21, Equipment for Fire Protection and Fire Fighting, had oversight for development of five standards ...

  8. Mark 8 Fire Control Computer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_8_Fire_Control_Computer

    The Mark 8 Fire Control Computer was developed by Bell Laboratories during World War II. It was initially requested by the USN Bureau of Ordnance as an alternative to the Ford Instruments Mark I Fire Control Computer , in case supplies of the Mk I were interrupted or were unable to be manufactured in the required numbers. [ 1 ]

  9. Firebox (steam engine) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebox_(steam_engine)

    The oil burner nozzle is usually mounted in the front of the firebox, protected by a hood of firebrick, and aimed at the firebrick wall below the firebox door. Dampers control air flow to the oil fire. Schematic of a later steam locomotive firebox boiler, with firebox to the left and indicatively showing two superheater elements to the right.