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Wood and coal fire steam engine boilers if banked right is as good as diesel..should we put them back in use?

Jun 07, 2008 by jamesfentress44 | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

With today's technology, the engines could be more fertile
in horsepower and the stacks filtered to environmental standards. Commodities can be moved seaside to coast and
not one drop of imported oil need be reach-me-down. Parts lubrication
can come from home grown sources and drilling domestically.

Yes we should. Thanks for a correct question.

In coal fired boilers, what is the efficiency of CHAIN GRATE compared to FLUIDIZED BED?

Oct 29, 2007 by mca | Posted in Engineering

about 80-85 % for the concatenation grate and 85-90% for the fluidized bed

Leaking back boiler coal fire - not in use as have oil fired CH but how do we remove it, can we do it ourself?

Apr 30, 2007 by melissa p | Posted in Do It Yourself (DIY)

Hi, please facilitate, we have bought a house that has oil fired CH but we also have a coal fire. So far as we know the back boiler is nothing to do with the heating anymore and the scrape is all rusty and wet which makes us think the back boiler explode or is leaking. We want to remove the back boiler completely and demolish out the fireplace to install a multiburner, but aren't definite if we can do it ourselves, or how to do it. Has anyone any suggestions as to if we can do it and how. Also can we remove the pipes that run down the side of the chimney core?

canbe done yourself, my opinion (as a plumber) would be to call in the experts, as it gets very messy and hardc occupation

Can a boiler (coal fed) override a thermostat?

Dec 03, 2006 by Julie N | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

First, thanks to all who answered my foregoing thermostat question. I took that info and conducted an policy test today. When I woke up, the radiators were cold and the lodgings temp was 62. My thermostat (turn back comfort) was set at 60. I set my thermostat to 64 and the heater kicked on, of without a doubt. When the room temp hit 64, the heater coop up off. I didn't touch the turn back thermostat; it's still set at 64. However, every fifteen minutes for the heretofore two hours, the heater has kicked on and the room temp has increased. Abide temp is now 74, thermostat is set at 64, and the heater is still uninterrupted. Is there something in this system (60 year old coal fed boiler that heats about 10 apartments in a 150 year old construction through hot water radiators; each apartment has its own thermostat) that could override a identify new thermostat? I had this problem with the old thermostat that was replaced last week. Temp shell is about 40 degrees. Thanks again.

no ; make restitution for the thermostat; that simple

using coal fuel in steam boilers, what factor contributes much in attaining good and efficient burning?

Sep 17, 2007 by mca | Posted in Engineering

The most powerful factor in good combustion efficiency is the air to nourishment ratio. Too much air and a lot of the heat of combustion is wasted up the clean stack, and too little air means incomplete combustion and wasted encourage. Too much air is signaled by white smoke from the stack and too mean air gives black smoke. The boiler is unceasing efficiently when the smoke is a transparent haze.
New boilers usually burn highly pulverised coal in air blown injectors and it is workable to regulate the air fuel ratio precisely, but in older boilers such as rail locomotives and the early coal fired ocean liners the boiler skilfulness lay largely in the skill of the stokers in maintaining a best combustion bed so that the air flow was as even as possible throughout the fire chamber.