Application of Fire Tube Boiler
Fire tube boilers are popularly known as shell boilers since in these boilers all the surfaces contributing towards heat transfer are enclosed inside a shell made up of steel. They can be also called as Smoke tube boilers. As the name suggests, in fire tube boiler systems, the hot exhaust gases emanating out of combustion reaction are passed through the boiler tubes. These tubes are in turn surrounded by the water which needs to be heated. Heat is then transferred to the circulating water via the hot gases produced by the burner. “In fire tube boilers, the combustion gases pass inside boiler tubes, and heat is transferred to water on the shell side.” In this way the water gets converted into steam for utilization into various process applications. The most widely used boilers for industrial applications.
There are two main fire tube boiler types that you can choose from for your specific application: fire tube steam boiler and fire tube hot water boilers. And deciding which of the two will best fit your process need is fairly important.
The fire tube boiler systems are mainly used in hospital, school, swimming pool, pharmaceutical factory, package plant, architectural material industry, food industry, textile dyeing and printing industry, clothing industry and other industries.
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