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Five-drum form, section. Note the chain-grate automatic stoker (left).

The Stirling boiler is an early form of water-tube boiler, used to generate steam in large land-based stationary plants. Although widely used around 1900, it has now fallen from favour and is rarely seen.

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saturated-steam into the steam-drum. Initially the boilers were designed with 4 drums and 3 drums like the Stirling boiler. The single drum at the bottom and three...

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since been a component of every air engine that is called a Stirling engine. In boilers, economizers are heat exchange devices that heat fluids, usually...

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Hammersmith power station

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plant comprised: Boilers: 1 × 17,000 lb/h (2.1 kg/s) Stirling boilers with chain grate stoker, 2 × 20,000 lb/h (2.5 kg/s) Stirling boilers with chain grate...

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Stourport power stations

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Coal-fired boilers: Low pressure 4 × 50,000 lb/h (6.3 kg/s) Stirling boilers, 350 psi at 686 °F (24.1 bar at 363 °C) 2 × 90,000 lb/h (11.33 kg/s) Stirling boilers...

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Coventry power stations

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Engineering Company, Wilson Lovatt, Stirling Boiler Company, and Pirelli-General Cable work. The engine room and boiler house were constructed on mass concrete...

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Carlisle power stations

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Coal-fired boilers: 1 x 25,000 lb/h (3.15 kg/s) Stirling boiler, operating at 265 psi, 650 °F (18.3 bar, 343 °C) 1 x 24,000 lb/h (3.02 kg/s) Stirling boiler, operating...

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Ravenswood Mining Landscape and Chinese Settlement Area

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brick vaulted top. A large Stirling water tube boiler has been relocated to the south of the boiler house, and a Cornish boiler casing lies to the west....

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William Armstrong Fairburn

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capacity, he met O. C. Barber and Edward R. Stettinius, Sr., at the Stirling Boiler Co. (later merged into Babcock & Wilcox). They were also executives...

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GNR Class J4

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after which the boiler was enlarged to 4 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1.283 m) diameter, and 132 more were built down to 1896. That year, Stirling introduced the GNR...

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Henry Ivatt

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GNR, he became associated with the GNR Class C1 (small boiler) and GNR Class C1 (large boiler) 4-4-2 (Atlantic) type, which he introduced to Britain....

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Pyrmont Power Station

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1907 (Nos 6+7), each with a capacity of 2 MW. Steam was supplied by 4 Stirling boilers whose smoke exhausted to the original chimney. This plant remained...

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