Failures due to flame / electrical / sensor failure is a common feature, from my exp. and what I have seen I would say that majority of accidents take place on auto controlled boilers, because of automisation the attends tend to relax and don't often check / verify the controls.
The accidents...
mjcronin,
Hi, I have not seen any sites on boiler explosions, the incidents that I have mentioned are true and have seen them, if you want I can give the address where the boilers were installed and here are a few more,
The one about safety valve: well after investigations it was found that the...
You can install a external furnace to your existing boiler, but the concept you seem to have, I am not sure about it.
What I would suggest is you install a water cooled ext. furnace complete with down comers riser etc.. to make the furnace air tight and reduce refractory the furnace can be of...
As far as my knoledge goes, I don't think there are any guidelines on the min. distance required between two adjacent boilers. The major criteria would be the availbility of space, area required for regular maintaince and free movement of boiler personnels, id retractable soot blowers are...