coal boiler

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coal
noun[C or U]
uk
/kəʊl/us
/koʊl/
a hard, black substance that is dug from the earth in pieces, and can be burned to produce heat or power, or a single piece ...
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boiler
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbɔɪ.lər/us
/ˈbɔɪ.lɚ/
a device that heats water, especially to provide heating and hot water in ...
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(Definition ofcoalandboilerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There were lean-to greenhouses heated by acoalboilervia water pipes.
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The mill was powered by steam from acoalboileruntil it was converted to electricity in 1920.
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Water was heated by acoalboiler, which had to be lit and stoked on match days.
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The station had central heating supplied by acoalboilerunder the booking hall, a coal chute from a street manhole was used to supply coal.
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The third sector is the smallest one and it heats air which is routed into the pulverizers and used to carry the coal-air mixture tocoalboilerburners.
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Oil boilers are much cheaper to purchase than coal boilers.
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Theoretically coal burning plant can have quite a high turndown ratio, and in the days of hand firing coal boilers this was common.
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The railway closed to freight in 1959, following the hospital's decision to convert its coal boilers to oil, which rendered the railway unnecessary.
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The primary difference between the three types of pulverized coal boilers are the operating temperatures and pressures.
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In between the boilers were converted into furnace oil boilers and again back to coal boilers.
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In 1951 the coal boilers were replaced with petroleum-fueled ones.
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For other sources, such as vehicles or coal boilers, regulatory approaches may be required to nudge either the transition to existing technology or the development of new technology.
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