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* Arsenical brass contains an addition of arsenic and frequently aluminium and is used for boiler fireboxes.
Schematic of an improvised double boiler, as used in outdoor cooking
A double boiler, also known as a bain-marie, is a stove top apparatus used to cook delicate sauces such as beurre blanc, to melt chocolate without burning or seizing, or cook any other thick liquid or porridge that would normally burn if not stirred constantly.
* The boiler horsepower is used for rating steam boilers and is equivalent to 34. 5 pounds of water evaporated per hour at 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or 9, 809. 5 watts.
He constructed and patented in London a low-lift combined vacuum and pressure water pump, that generated about one horsepower ( hp ) and was used in numerous water works and tried in a few mines ( hence its " brand name ", The Miner's Friend ), but it was not a success since it was limited in pumping height and prone to boiler explosions.
This allowed an engine and boiler to be combined into a single unit compact enough to be used on mobile road and rail locomotives and steam boats.
Orimulsion is currently used as a commercial boiler fuel in power plants worldwide ( e. g., Canada, Japan, Lithuania, Italy and China ).
This type of pump was used extensively in the early days of steam propulsion ( 19th century ) as boiler feed water pumps.
In an extracting type turbine, steam is released from various stages of the turbine, and used for industrial process needs or sent to boiler feedwater heaters to improve overall cycle efficiency.
It used " a caustic soda patent boiler to power a 14-HP Westinghouse steam engine ".
High temperature steam fog from underground steam utility lines used for commercial heat transfer, and small boiler sources, are also used by artists for atmospheric visual displays, and as a dynamic projection surfaces.
Depending on the mature size and the purpose for which the onion is used, these may be referred to as pearl, boiler, or pickler onions.
He is believed to have suggested to Robert Stephenson that a multi-tube boiler should be used.
The instrument used to prepare caffè at home, the caffettiera, is essentially a small steam machine made of a bottom boiler, a central filter which contains the coffee grounds, and an upper cup.
The toilet, bath tap and a tap in the kitchen over a copper boiler which was used for both washing clothes and heating bath water were all fed from a reservoir tank in the attic which invariably froze on winter mornings leaving the toilets unusable.
The school added a parish center in 2003, which includes a gym, locker rooms, offices, meeting rooms, boiler room, and a kitchenette to be used to the benefit of its students, faculty, and staff.
The design of the AGR was such that the final steam conditions at the boiler stop valve were identical to that of conventional coal-fired power stations, thus the same design of turbo-generator plant could be used.
In some cases, the vertical boiler can be used that is less sensitive for the track gradient.
Track was not used – the boiler was filled with water, the burner lit, and when steam was being produced, the locomotive was placed on the floor and allowed to run until either the water or fuel ran out or the engine crashed into the furniture.
He then used it as the chassis for a locomotive constructed to Trevithick's pattern with a single cylinder and a simple straight through fire tube to the boiler.
Stainless steel is virtually prohibited ( by the ASME Boiler Code ) for use in wetted parts of modern boilers, but is used often in superheater sections that will not be exposed to liquid boiler water.
This is the type of boiler used in nearly all steam locomotives.
The term " boiler " should not be used for a supercritical pressure steam generator, as no " boiling " actually occurs in this device.
* Safety valve: It is used to relieve pressure and prevent possible explosion of a boiler.

boiler and on
Morgan returned to the kitchen, built a fire, and carried in several buckets of water from the spring which he poured into the copper boiler that he had placed on the stove.
Although, in these early years, engines came in a number of configurations, typically Q < sub > H </ sub > was supplied by a boiler, wherein water was boiled over a furnace ; Q < sub > C </ sub > was typically a stream of cold flowing water in the form of a condenser located on a separate part of the engine.
The Rotem Industrial Complex outside of the city has dozens of solar mirrors that focus the sun's rays on a tower that in turn heats a water boiler to create steam, turning a turbine to create electricity.
A first such effort on 12 December failed due to boiler trouble, but the second try two days later resulted in an indecisive engagement between the Greek destroyers and the cruiser Mecidiye.
Steam just above atmospheric pressure ( all that the boiler could stand ) was introduced into the lower half of the cylinder beneath the piston during the gravity-induced upstroke ; the steam was then condensed by a jet of cold water injected into the steam space to produce a partial vacuum ; the pressure differential between the atmosphere and the vacuum on either side of the piston displaced it downwards into the cylinder, raising the opposite end of a rocking beam to which was attached a gang of gravity-actuated reciprocating force pumps housed in the mineshaft.
Steam locomotives built for steep rack and pinion railways frequently have the boiler tilted relative to the wheels, so that the boiler remains roughly level on steep grades.
Reaching a then-astonishing on the first day of competition, it later suffered some damage to a boiler pipe which could not be fixed properly on site in the time allotted.
Specialized devices such as steam hammers and steam pile drivers are dependent on steam supplied from a separate boiler.
DeFreeze escaped from the Soledad State Prison on March 5, 1973 simply by walking away while on work duty in a boiler room located outside the perimeter fence.
Other circus calliopes were self-contained, mounted on a carved, painted and gilded wagon pulled by horses, but the presence of other steam boilers in the circus meant that fuel and expertise to run the boiler were readily available.
* lebes " boiler " > chaldāria (= caldāria ), based on Classical caldārius " related to bathing or hot water " ( French chaudière, Romansh chaldera, Italian caldaia, Occitan caudera, Catalan / Spanish caldera, Portuguese caldeira, Romanian căldare )
The mechanics of the model locomotive incorporated a number of innovations, such as a boiler safety valve, having the cylinder partly immersed in the boiler and using a new valve system on the lines of the D-slide valve.
The blastpipe worked well on the multi-tube boiler of Rocket but on earlier designs with a single flue through the boiler it had created so much suction that it tended to rip the top off the fire and throw burning cinders out of the chimney, vastly increasing the fuel consumption.
Custard is usually cooked in a double boiler ( bain-marie ), or heated very gently in a saucepan on a stove, though custard can also be steamed, baked in the oven with or without a water bath, or even cooked in a pressure cooker.
" Doc turns his boiler on at the very moment that the Archbanger begins to strike the pipes with the umbrella, and the Fraggles ' faith in the pipe-banging ritual is restored.

boiler and Novelty
However, when Novelty next ran the water feed pipe burst and more repairs had to be made, which seem to have included a seal on the boiler.

boiler and was
One significant innovation was the use of a fire-tube boiler, invented by French engineer Marc Seguin that gave improved heat exchange.
Therefore, the missile was ejected from its launch tube using high pressure steam produced by a solid-fueled boiler.
The heat for the house was initially obtained by running a flue from the nearby palm house but it was later equipped with its own boiler.
Murdoch's working model was a three-wheeled vehicle about a foot in height with the engine and boiler placed between the two larger back wheels with a spirit lamp underneath to heat the water and a tiller at the front turning the smaller front wheel.
Rockets boiler was of the more highly developed form, with the separate firebox and a blastpipe for draught, rather than Seguin's cumbersome fans, but Rocket was not the first multi-tubular boiler, although it remains unclear just whose invention it was.
The firebox was separate from the boiler and was double walled, with a water jacket between them.
Stephenson recognised that the hottest part of the boiler, and thus the most effective for evaporating water, was that surrounding the fire itself.
In the late 1990s, work was being carried out near and around Edward IV's tomb in St George's Chapel, the floor area was excavated to replace an old boiler and also to add a new repository for the remains of future Deans and Canons of Windsor.

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