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2. Boiler (power generation) - Wikipedia

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   Boiler (power generation) An industrial boiler, originally used for supplying steam to a stationary steam engine. A boiler or steam generator is a device used to create steam by applying heat energy to water. Although the definitions are somewhat flexible, it can be said that older steam generators were commonly termed boilers and worked at low ...

3. Electric steam boiler - Wikipedia

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   An electric steam boiler is a type of boiler where the steam is generated using electricity, rather than through the combustion of a fuel source. Such boilers are used to generate steam for process purposes in many locations, for example laundries, food processing factories and hospitals. Although they are more expensive to run than gas-fired ...

4. Steam generator (boiler) - Wikipedia

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   A steam generator is a form of low water-content boiler, similar to a flash steam boiler. The usual construction is as a spiral coil of water-tube, arranged as a single, or monotube, coil. Circulation is once-through and pumped under pressure, as a forced-circulation boiler. [1] The narrow-tube construction, without any large-diameter drums or ...

5. List of boiler types by manufacturer - Wikipedia

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   Monotube steam generator: A single tube, usually in a multi-layer spiral, that forms a once-through steam generator. The first of these was the Herreshoff steam generator of 1873. [38] Multi-tube boiler: fire-tube boiler with multiple small fire-tubes, rather than a single large flue.

6. Steam-electric power station - Wikipedia

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   A steam-electric power station is a power station in which the electric generator is steam -driven: water is heated, evaporates, and spins a steam turbine which drives an electric generator. After it passes through the turbine, the steam is condensed in a condenser. The greatest variation in the design of steam-electric power plants is due to ...

7. Babcock & Wilcox - Wikipedia

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   The old B&W company logo, showing the world as an Aeolipile. The company was founded in 1867 by Stephen Wilcox, Jr. and his partner George Herman Babcock with the intention of building safer steam boilers. Stephen Wilcox first avowed that “there must be a better way” to safely generate power, and he and George Babcock responded with the ...