TYPES OF BOILER

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Boilers

Steam Boilers Water Boilers

Fire Tube Water Tube

Internal External Horizontal

Bent Tube Cyclone Fired
Furnace Furnace Straight Tube

Horizontal Horizontal Longitudinal

Two Drum
Tubular Return Tubular Drum

Vertical
Short Fire Box Cross Drum Three Drum
Tubular

Low Head
Compact
Three Drum

Four Drum

Advantages Disadvantages
Fire Tube 1) It is quite compact in construction. 1) As the water required for operation of the boiler is
2) Fluctuation of steam demand can be quite large, it requires long time for rising steam at
met easily. desired pressure.
3) It is also quite cheap. 2) As the water and steam are in same vessel the very
high pressure of steam is not possible.
3) The steam received from fire tube boiler is not
very dry.

Water Tube 1) Larger heating surface can be 1) The main disadvantage of water tube boiler is that
achieved by using more numbers of it is not compact in construction.
water tubes. 2) Its cost is not cheap.
2) Due to convectional flow, 3) Size is a difficulty for transportation and
movement of water is much faster construction.
than that of fire tube boiler, hence rate
of heat transfer is high which results
into higher efficiency.
3) Very high pressure in order of 140
kg/cm2 can be obtained smoothly.