On their larger engines, Robey used a conventional boiler.
The heat generated during this process is supplied to an appropriately matched heat demand that would otherwise be met by a conventional boiler.
A hotel's conventional boiler for heat production alone usually achieves 70% and standby electricity generators, 50%.
The single conventional boiler made maintenance cheaper and did away with the crew's separation.
The typical range for conventional boilers is to vary the supply water temperature from 60 .
This was not a great success and they were later rebuilt with conventional boilers.
These were unsuccessful, and later engines used conventional boilers.
Never successful and re-boilered with a conventional boiler.
The new boiler design did not last long in service and the locomotives were rebuilt with conventional boilers after ten years.
Complementary to the nuclear component there are two conventional boilers, installed as a backup in case of reactor failure.