Boilers, Babcock Wilcox Stirling

Types and Features.—Boilers may be classed as horizontal (Heine, loc6-motive) or vertical (Wickes, Manning) fire-tube (horizontal-tubular. Manning, locomotive) or water-tube (Babcock Wilcox, Wickes, Stirling, Heine) exter-... 

Fire 1.4. Steam boiler and furnace arrangements. [Steam, Babcock and Wilcox, Barberton, OH, 1972, pp. 3.14, 12.2 (Fig. 2), and 25.7 (Fig. 5)]. (a) Natural circulation of water in a two-drum boiler. Upper drum is for steam disengagement the lower one for accumulation and eventual blowdown of sediment, (b) A two-drum boiler. Preheat tubes along the Roor and walls are cormected to heaters that feed into the upper drum, (c) Cross section of a Stirling-type steam boiler with provisions for superheating, air preheating, and flue gas economizing for maximum production of 550,000 Ib/hr of steam at 1575 psia and 900°F. 

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