fire-tube boiler

A fire-tube boiler was more common in the 1800s.

This is similar to the function of a dome in a fire-tube boiler.

Kewanee was well known in the steam industry for fire-tube boilers.

It has also been used for firebox stays in fire-tube boilers.

Fire-tube boilers sometimes have water-tubes as well, to increase the heating surface.

This is usually a fire-tube boiler with a locomotive-type firebox.

As a fire-tube boiler it has generous heating area and so is an effective steamer.

The heat boils water in the fire-tube boiler to create pressurized steam.

Steam was provided by four rectangular fire-tube boilers.

This was followed by a number of undertype steam wagons using a vertical fire-tube boiler.

Steam was provided by two Maudslay iron fire-tube boilers with six furnaces.

It used a compact fire-tube boiler to power a simple double-acting two-cylinder engine.

Once on the main line, Tornado is not expected to leave it again until its ten-year fire-tube boiler re-certification in late 2018.

It was not simply a matter of building a normal fire-tube boiler with suitably increased strength and stoking harder.

Eight cylindrical fire-tube boilers provided steam to the engines, each of which drove one propeller.

In a fire-tube boiler, the entire tank is under pressure, so if the tank bursts it creates a major explosion.

The horizontal fire-tube boiler is also typical of marine applications, using the Scotch boiler.

US Patent 5558046 - fire-tube boiler suitable for ash-containing fuels

Fire-tube boiler.

Fire-tube boilers usually have a comparatively low rate of steam production, but high steam storage capacity.

Fire-tube boilers mostly burn solid fuels, but are readily adaptable to those of the liquid or gas variety.

The advantage of the water-tube boiler was that steam could be raised much more quickly than with a conventional fire-tube boiler.

It used a compact fire-tube boiler under the hood to power a simple two-piston engine which was connected directly to the rear axle.

The ship also had a single horizontal 2-cylinder steam engine that was powered by a single semi-circular fire-tube boiler.

Types of fire-tube boiler