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The boilers were safer than one might expect – they were fitted with safety valves, and even if these failed, a dangerous overpressure would rupture one of the many joints long before the boiler shell was in danger of bursting, and the resulting leak would relieve the boiler pressure and douse the burner with little risk to the occupants of the car.
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Because of the danger of exploding boilers, which were in a very primitive stage of development, and the ongoing issues with leaks, Watt restricted his use of high pressure steam – all of his engines used steam at near atmospheric pressure.
Thin transparent sheets of mica called " isinglass " were used for peepholes in boilers, lanterns, stoves, and kerosene heaters because they were less likely to shatter than glass when exposed to extreme temperature gradients.
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.
The external combustion engines and boilers on steam locomotives were large and heavy and time consuming to maintain.
The boilers for heating and power generation, a significant cause of fire at the time, were located in a separate powerhouse, along with the steam-driven dynamos that produced the electricity which, along with steam for heating and hot water, was fed to the building via an underground conduit.
At the time these disputes were collectively known as the Plug Plot as in many cases, protesters removed the plugs from steam boilers powering industry to prevent their use.
The men from Salina who were salt boilers " descended upon the house to break up a party.
Formerly, the manufacture of radiators and boilers were the chief industries.
Churchill's stance against suffragettes may have had an impact in a city where many women were breadwinners, while many men were " kettle boilers ".
He determined the boilers were intact, and speculated the second explosion may have been caused by coal dust.
The Leasowe and Egremont were popular ferries with their crews as they had much improved crew accommodation compared to the earlier steamers, where much of the lower deck space was taken up with boilers and machinery.
Historically, boilers were a source of many serious injuries and property destruction due to poorly understood engineering principles.
Forty-five men were buried in the station's cemetery, but the cemetery was itself buried in a 1969 volcano eruption, and the only remaining signs are the rusting boilers and tanks.
Such vessels were powered by coal-fired boilers and reciprocating steam engines and relied in part on the arrangement of coal bunkers for their protection.
Nürnberg was running at full speed but in need of maintenance, while the crew of the pursuing Kent were pushing her boilers and engines to the limit.
Arethusa was badly damaged, so at 10: 17 Fearless came alongside and both cruisers were stopped for 20 minutes while repairs were made to the boilers.
The ship could be designed so that under the armoured deck were the engines, boilers and magazines, and enough displacement to keep the ship afloat and stable even in the event of damage.
Oil fired boilers were introduced, making side bunkers of coal unnecessary but losing the protection they afforded.
Many of the ships ' boilers were in need of repair ; several ships, including the armored cruiser, desperately needed bottom-cleaning as they were suffering from extra drag due to fouling.
In both stages the boilers were made by Babcock Power Ltd and the generators by C. A. Parsons and Company.
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Babcock's water tube steam boiler provided a safer and more efficient production of steam, and was built to work better under higher pressures than earlier boilers.
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CFBC boilers are generally more economical than AFBC boilers for industrial application requiring more than 75 – 100 T / hr of steam.
For large units, the taller furnace characteristics of CFBC boilers offers better space utilization, greater fuel particle and sorbent residence time for efficient combustion and SO2 capture, and easier application of staged combustion techniques for NOx control than AFBC steam generators.
Although condensing boilers are becoming more popular, they are still less common than other types of hydronic boilers as they are more expensive.
Most boilers now depend on mechanical draught equipment rather than natural draught.
Biodiesel can also be used as a heating fuel in domestic and commercial boilers, a mix of heating oil and biofuel which is standardized and taxed slightly differently than diesel fuel used for transportation.
* Leidenfrost effect – lower temperature boilers can sometimes vaporize water faster than higher temperature boilers.
However, outdoor wood boilers emit more wood smoke and associated pollutants than other wood-burning appliances.
* 1867: Stephen Wilcox and his partner George Herman Babcock patent the " Babcock & Wilcox Non-Explosive Boiler ", which uses water inside clusters of tubing to generate steam, typically with higher pressures and more efficiently than the typical " firetube " boilers of that time.
This change began around 1900, and traced the adoption of turbines for propulsion rather than reciprocating ( i. e. piston ) engines – although water tube boilers were also used with reciprocating engines.
* The capital cost of night storage heating is relatively low, and installation is far easier than the initial installation of gas-fired boilers, piping and radiators.
Combustion of the product gas in gas boilers is ecologically cleaner than combustion of initial coal.
The size of the firebox waterspace was also criticised, although this was due to Aspinall's standard boilers, rather than Hoy's construction.
Lime is typically used on large coal-or oil-fired boilers as found in power plants, as it is very much less expensive than caustic soda.
He also designed methods for heating liquid boilers with steam rather than fire, presumably increasing their safety significantly.
District heating plants can provide higher efficiencies and better pollution control than localized boilers.
Howden patented this device in 1882 as the ' Howden System of Forced Draught ' and during the 1880s more than 1000 boilers were converted to this specification or constructed to Howden's patent.
The Pressure Equipment Directive 97 / 23 / EC ( PED ) of the EU sets out the standards for the design and fabrication of pressure equipment (" pressure equipment " means steam boilers, pressure vessels, piping, safety valves and other components and assemblies subject to pressure loading ) generally over one litre in volume and having a maximum pressure more than 0. 5 bar gauge.
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The Kewanee Boiler Corporation manufactured and sold thousands of boilers throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada and the world for well over one hundred years.
At one stage, during the General Strike of 1926, the salvage operation was about to grind to a halt due to a lack of coal to feed the boilers for the water pumps, until Cox ordered that the abundant fuel bunkers of the sunken battlecruiser Seydlitz be broken into to extract the coal with mechanical grabs, allowing work to continue.
In the afternoon the crew of three fired the boilers to full power, and after reaching a speed of over 42 mph ( 68 km / h ) about down the track the machine produced so much lift it broke one of restraining rails and crashed after flying at a low altitudes for about.
Of its two staircases, one leads to the roof of the baths, and one to the boilers containing the water.
There were three boilers, one of which ( caldarium vas ) held the hot water ; a second, the tepid ( tepidarium ); and the third, the cold ( frigidarium ).
One of the Oneida's iron boilers had been shut down for repairs leaving only one in operation.
Combination or combi boilers, combine the central heating ( CH ) with ( tankless ) domestic hot water ( DHW ) in one box.
By 1946, the Babelsberg factory resumed production of locomotive boilers, and one year later the plant delivered its first postwar locomotive.
On a steamship, power for both electricity and propulsion is provided by one or more large boilers giving rise to the alternate name boiler room.
Kinugasa and Salt Lake City exchanged fire with each other, each hitting the other several times, causing minor damage to Kinugasa and damaging one of Salt Lake Citys boilers, reducing her speed.
The fire-tube boiler developed as the third of the four major historical types of boilers: low-pressure tank or " haystack " boilers, flued boilers with one or two large flues, fire-tube boilers with many small tubes, and high-pressure water-tube boilers.
The ' D-type ' is the most common type of small-to medium-sized boilers, similar to the one shown in the schematic diagram.
They were specially built with two boilers in order to balance on the track, and consequently two fireboxes, one of which had to be stoked by the driver.
Baikal had 15 boilers, four funnels, was long and could carry 24 railway coaches and one locomotive on her middle deck.
Salem, for extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession on the occasion of the accident to one of the boilers of that vessel, 13 September 1909.
When fitted with new diesel engines in 1987, which had a different exhaust requirement to the old boilers, the new funnel was built to the same silhouette as the old one, in order to retain this distinctive recognition feature.
All extra boilers made were the sloping throatplate arrangement, and only one example of a later engine having been fitted with a straight throatplate boiler is known-45433.
For example in the case of 45082, it was fitted with a brand new boiler at the end of 1956, in fact one of the last batch of four boilers that were manufactured for this class.
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