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Lever safety valve
The advantage of level safety valve over the dead weight safety valve is that the heavy dead weight is replaced…
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Spring loaded safety valve (Ramsbotom Safety Valve)
Description of spring loaded safety valve: It is loaded with a spring instead of weights. Hence it is called spring…
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Safety valves
Safety valves are devices used to maintain a constant safe pressure inside the boiler. When the pressure inside the boiler…
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Water gauge or Water Level Indicator
Water gauge indicates the water level inside the boiler and is hence called as water level indicator. Usually two water…
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Bourdon tube Pressure Gauge
Principle of Bourdon tube pressure gauge: when an elastic transducer ( bourdon tube in this case ) is subjected to…
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Pressure gauge
A pressure gauge is used to indicate the steam pressure of the boiler. It is also called as steam gauge.…
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Dead Weight safety valve
The Dead Weight safety valve consists of a valve V which is made of gun metal to prevent rusting. It rests on…
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Wind power Generation
The primitive man had to use his muscle power to carry out different works in his attempt of obtaining the…
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Tidal power generation
Principle of Tidal power generation: Tide or wave is periodic rise and fall of water level of the sea. Tides…
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Solar collectors
Flat plate collector: In a flat plate collector, the radiation energy of sun falls on a flat surface coated with…
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Solar Power Plant
Basic principle of solar energy: The sun gives out 3.7*10 ^20 MW of energy into space, out of which earth…
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Nuclear Power Plant
Working Principle: A nuclear power plant differs from a conventional steam power plant only in the steam generating part. There…