Repblica Bolivariana de Venezuela

Universidad Nacional Experimental Martima del Caribe

Coordinacin de Idiomas
Maritime English VI

Students: Teacher:
Medrano Jhonniel Cesar Ribas
Luis Rodriguez.
Catia la mar, May 4 2017
A boiler is a closed vessel in which water or other fluid is heated under pressure.
The hot fluid circulates out of the boiler for being used in various process or
heating applications.
The most common sources of heat for the boiler can be combustion of
fuels such as wood, coal, oil, or natural gas.
Fire-tube boilers: The heat source is inside the tubes and the water to
be heated is outside.
 The water surrounds the heat source and the gases from combustion
pass through tubes through the water space.
Water-tube boilers: The heat source is outside the tubes and the
water to be heated is inside the tubes.
Water circulates in tubes which are heated externally by the fire. Fuel is
burned inside the furnace, producing hot gas which heats up water in the
steam-generating tubes.

The heated water then rises into the steam drum. Here, saturated steam is
drawn off the top of the drum.
Steam reenters the furnace in through a superheater to become superheated.
Superheated steam is used in driving turbines.

water which did not reach the boiling point at the bottom of the steam drum
returns to the feed water drum via downcomer tube, where it helps pre-heat
the feed water supply.
 A basic boiler is a
machine with the
simplest arrangement
of the internal parts.
The main job of a boiler
is to make high
pressure steam.
The feed water
supplied to the boiler
drum utilizes the This energy of the
heat of the energy burning fuel is stored in
released by the form of steam with
high temperature and
burning the fuel. pressure. The fuel is
burnt in a combustion
chamber inside the
boiler.
 BOILERS ON BOARD VESSELS
They supply steam to the auxiliary machinery such as the turbine of the feed
pumps, turbo generator, for generating electricity, cooking service, Heating
(cabins, lounges, etc.), heating of fuel oil, laundry and distillation of water.