Fire Tube Boiler

Fire Tube Boiler Points : Fire Tube Boilers, Definition Fire-tube boiler is a kind of boiler in which hot gases as of fire pass during one or additional tubes running during a sealed container of water. The warmth gases is move through the walls of tubes through thermal conduction, heating water with eventually generate steam. This kind of boiler used on almost all steam locomotives in horizontal "locomotive" type. This boiler have cylindrical barrel the fire tubes, except too has an addition at one end to house "firebox". Firebox has an open base to give large grate part and frequently extends outside the cylindrical barrel to type a rectangular or tapered enclosure. Horizontal boiler is too typical of marine applications, by Scotch boiler. Vertical boilers contain also been build of multiple fire-tube kind, while these are moderately rare: most vertical boilers were also flued, or by cross water -tubes.