Author: Dieter Miedek

Publisher: Verlag für Technik und Handwerk

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Total Pages: 500

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The boiler and the machine must always be considered as one unit, because the machine must generate a certain amount of power for its work. But it can only do this if the boiler provides enough energy in the form of steam. If a boiler is too small, the machine will never deliver enough power. Thus, the boiler is actually the most important element of a steam plant. Dieter Miedek shows the way from historical background, theoretical calculations, tools and equipment to the manufacture of a simple steam boiler. Above all, the skill of brazing is an essential craft requirement for building a boiler system yourself. The peripheral equipment required for safe operation around the steam boiler is not neglected either. From the content: • Historical story about boiler construction • Basic physical terms • Of the heat and the physical basics • Basics and calculations of a flame tube boiler • Gas, oxygen and safety • Basics of brazing • Brazing pads and fixtures • Pressure tools and fixtures • Machine tools and tools • Technical rules for steam boilers • The water pressure test • Boiler insulation • Boiler constructions • Simple boilers made of pipe sections and fittings • The small boiler • Flat flame tube boiler • Large flame tube boiler • Vertical boiler • Locomotive boiler • "Yarrow" boiler • Continuous flow boiler • Large boiler • Feuerbuchs smoke tube boiler • Large boiler Tubular boiler Wolf 1 • Cross-tube boiler "Yarrow" type • The periphery of the steam boiler