A means is provided to produce fresh water from seawater on both the boiler side and the condenser side of an OTEC power plant. Part of the warm ocean surface water is evaporated, and its vapor transfers heat to the working-fluid boiler as the vapor condenses. The condensation of the vapor provides fresh water. On the condenser side, the condensation of the working-fluid …
Read MoreIn the boiler of the water through fixed (wood, coal, coal dust) or liquid fuel (oil) is prepared by heating the steam generated. A fundamental distinction is made between flame tube boilers, smoke tube boilers and water tube boilers.In the early days of steam shipping, the flame tube boiler with one to four burners was widespread.
Read MoreJul 29, 2009 · In this article, we look at the construction and operation of the marine boilers found on both steam-powered and fuel oil powered ships. The steam generation process is explained and important key phrases are defined. The various uses for steam aboard ship are described, and the difference between the water tube and fire tube basic designs in explained. Learn …
Read MoreJan 07, 2022 · Boiler types. The watertube boiler is employed for high-pressure, high-temperature, high-capacity steam applications, e.g. providing steam for main propulsion turbines or cargo pump turbines. Firetube boilers are used for auxiliary purposes to provide smaller quantities of low-pressure steam on diesel engine powered ships.
Read MoreJan 27, 2022 · This steam evaporator aboard HMS Belfast distilled up to six tons of fresh water per hour for the boiler and for drinking. An evaporator, distiller or distilling apparatus is a piece of ship's equipment used to produce fresh drinking water from sea water by distillation. As fresh water is bulky, may spoil in storage, and is an essential supply for any long voyage, the ability to …
Read MoreSteam generators, also known as boilers, are hungry creatures and all the more so in the early years of the 1800's. Once brought to life they consume tons of fuel and thousands of gallons of fresh water every hour. Each stroke of the steam engine discharged water and heat from the boiler into the atmosphere.
Read MoreJul 28, 2021 · A monotube boiler, a type of steam generator (early 1900s White Motor Company). 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]
Read MoreThe _____ located near the boiler separates air and water in the condensate return, expelling the air pumping the water back into the boiler Vacuum pump All boilers are now rated on a proportion of 100 for steam and 165 for water, with steam at 2 pounds pressure or water at the boiler
Read MoreThe consumption of fresh water must reach nearly 800 tons. The power thus obtained is 45,000 horsepower, and the production of steam per hour of 270,000 kilos. To avoid the need to carry more than a thousand tons of fresh water for the supply of boilers, the ship is equipped with evaporator boilers in which the seawater is distilled.
Read MoreLimitless quantities of fresh water can be produced at a cost of less than five cents per thousand gallons. The warm water leaving the boilers of the power plant is deaerated, then boiled under vacuum conditions to produce steam. The heat to evaporate steam comes from the water and lowers its temperature a few degrees.
Read MoreAs much as one-quarter of the total water fed to the boiler would be removed in this way. The condensers of the early engines consisted merely of a jet of sea water in a tank into which the exhaust steam was allowed to escape. The steam was condensed by the water jet and the condensate (condensed steam and sea water) was pumped back to the boiler.
Read MoreWhen preheated salt water enters a low-pressure chamber, some of it rapidly boils, or flashes, into water vapour. The vapour is condensed into fresh water on heat-exchange tubes that run through each stage. These tubes carry incoming seawater, thereby reducing the heat required from the boiler. Fresh water collects in trays under the tubes.
Read MoreJul 29, 2009 · In this article, we look at the construction and operation of the marine boilers found on both steam-powered and fuel oil powered ships. The steam generation process is explained and important key phrases are defined. The various uses for steam aboard ship are described, and the difference between the water tube and fire tube basic designs in explained. Learn …
Read MoreWater is at its highest density at 3.98 °C = 1000 kg/m 3 or 1 g/cm 3. The correct SI unit of density of water is ρ = 1000 kg/m 3. [also FYI, 1 m 3 = 1,000,000 cm 3]; Specific weight of water = 62.4 lb/ft 3 (IU) or 9.81 kN/m 3; Specific weight of seawater = 64 lb/ft 3 (IU) or 10.1 kN/m 3 - must be all that extra salt making it more dense, so we float better in seawater than in fresh water, right?
Read MoreOct 03, 2015 · THE previously described boilers, having the water outside the tubes and contained in an outer shell or so-called tank, are technically called 'water-tank' boilers, to distinguish them from the class known as 'water-tube' boilers descrlbed below. 'Water-tube' boilers are those in which the flame and water in the older form of boiler are
Read MoreSteam generators, also known as boilers, are hungry creatures and all the more so in the early years of the 1800's. Once brought to life they consume tons of fuel and thousands of gallons of fresh water every hour. Each stroke of the steam engine discharged water and heat from the boiler into the atmosphere.
Read MoreMay 31, 2009 · tached to the boiler the water rises up from the bottom of the boiler through the lower cock, and remains in the glass tube at the same level as the water in the boiler. The taps are then closed and the upper one opened, and two small balls of glass or metal are dropped into the water. The specific gravity of the first
Read MoreMay 11, 1999 · Cold saltwater circulated through the condenser to convert the warm steam to fresh water, which was then pumped into fresh water feed tanks for use by the boilers to make steam that goes back to the engines. Cutting off steam: To perform maintenance on the engine, all steam is cut off. To cool the engine at an even rate to prevent warping, the
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