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2. Fire-tube boiler - Wikipedia

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   Condensing boilers have a higher seasonal efficiency, typically 84% to 92%, than non-condensing boilers typically 70% to 75%. The seasonal efficiency is an overall efficiency of the boiler over the entire heating season as opposed to the combustion efficiency which is the boiler's efficiency when actively fired, which excludes standing losses.

3. List of boiler types by manufacturer - Wikipedia

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   Spanner boilers were also known for their use as train-heating boilers. spherical boiler: [55] Stanley steam-car boiler: an extremely compact vertical multitubular fire-tube boiler, used in the Stanley steam car. Steam generator: modern boilers, with very small volume in relation to their heating area. Boiling is thus almost instantaneous and ...

4. Package boiler - Wikipedia

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   Package boilers are fired from fuel oil in the form of liquid or gas. Fuel is ignited in the burners which creates an explosion within the boiler. Such package boilers do not require purifiers (filters) because they burn consistently removing all contaminants within the fuel.

5. Scotch marine boiler - Wikipedia

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   Steam-powered icebreaker Stettin, operating on two coal-fired boilers; Steam-powered drifter Lydia Eva, based in Lowestoft or Great Yarmouth, Fully operational coal-fired Scotch boiler. [17] The steam tug Kerne built 1913. Operated out of Liverpool by the Steam Tug Kerne Preservation Society. One coal-fired wet back Scotch marine boiler with ...

6. Boiler (power generation) - Wikipedia

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   Type of steam generator unit used in coal-fired power plants. The steam generator or steam boiler is an integral component of a steam engine when considered as a prime mover. However it needs to be treated separately, as to some extent a variety of generator types can be combined with a variety of engine units.

7. Flued boiler - Wikipedia

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   Trevithick's engine of 1806 is built around an early example of a flued boiler (specifically, a return-flue type). A shell or flued boiler is an early and relatively simple form of boiler used to make steam, usually for the purpose of driving a steam engine.