CORNISH BOILER
BIBIN CHIDAMBARANATHAN
CORNISH BOILER
❖ Cornish boiler is a horizontal fire tube boiler which
has an internal fire tube.
❖ This boiler has only one firetube running from front
to rear.
❖ This firetube is not concentrically fixed inside the
shell.
❖ This firetube is offset from the centre, because the
shell is never fully filled with water, some space of
the upper part of shell is left for steam and the
firetube is placed in such a way that it almost in the
middle of the water filled area.
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❖ Cornish Boiler was first time fabricated by Richard
Trevithic.
❖ It was first installed at Dolcoath mine in the year of
1812.
❖ Cornish boiler design has similarity with the
Lancashire Boiler.
❖ Length of the shell in Cornish boiler varies from 4 to
7 metres
❖ Diameter of the shell varies from 1.25 to 1.75 m.
❖ Cornish boiler can produce steam at the rate of
6500 kg/hr
❖ maximum steam pressure of 10.5 bar.
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Shell:
❖ It is the outermost covering of the Cornish
boiler.
❖ This is the container which contains water as
well as fire tube.
❖ Heat transfer between hot gases and water takes
place here.
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Grate:
❖ Grate is the part where heat is developed with
the help of fuel burning in it.
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Furnace:
❖ Furnace is the part where the coal or fuel enters
and burn inside it
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Combustion Chamber :
❖ It is used to supply the heat generated in the
grate to the fire tube which transfer heat to
water.
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Ash Pit:
❖ Ash pit contains the ashes of the fuel after they
are burnt completely.
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Firetube :
❖ This is present in the centre of the water area of
the Cornish boiler and the hot gases from grate
flows through this tube
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Side Flue :
❖ Flue are the tubes in which the hot gases enters
after passing from firetube.
❖ Flue present in the side of the horizontal shell is
known as side flue.
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Bottom Flue:
❖ Bottom flue is present at the bottom of the
horizontal shell.
❖ It takes the smoke from the side flue to the
chimney.
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Chimney:
❖ A chimney is a long vertical tube which takes the
smoke from the bottom flue and passes it to the
atmosphere with the help of a smoke box.
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Brick arc:
❖ Brick arc is provided to prevent the ash from
entering into the tubes.
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Water Feed Pump:
❖ It is used to supply water to the boiler
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Water Level Indicator:
❖ It is used to identify water level in the boiler and
used to send signals when eater level is too high
or too low.
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Steam Stop Valve:
❖ It is used to regulate the flow of steam from the
boiler.
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Safety Valve:
❖ Safety Valves are used to stop the steam
pressure from exceeding the maximum limit.
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Construction:
❖ The biggest part of the boiler is a long
cylindrical external shell.
❖ It is the outermost part of the Cornish Boiler
which contains other boiler parts.
❖ Inside the shell there is one internal fire tube
placed near bottom side of the boiler.
❖ Firetube is placed in such a way that it is in the
center of the water area of the Cornish boiler.
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Construction:
❖ The furnace and grate is present in the front side
of the boiler.
❖ Coal is introduced to the grate through a fire
hole.
❖ A brick arc is also provided to prevent the ashes
from burning coal to enter into fire tube and flue
tube.
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Construction:
❖ Two flue tubes are present in the two side of the
boiler and are called side flues and one is
present in the bottom of the boiler and is known
as bottom flue.
❖ There is another flue tube which is called main
flue tube.
❖ Through this main flue tube the flue gases
reaches the chimney.
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Construction:
❖ This chimney is used to pass the flue gases and
smoke from the main flue tube to the environment.
❖ Apart from these parts some mountings are
mounted on this boiler.
❖ A safety valve which is spring loaded is mounted on
the boiler to release the excess steam pressure
whenever there is high steam pressure inside the
boiler.
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Construction:
❖ Another mounting is stop valve and it is used to
regulate the generated steam between the steam
pipe and the boiler.t is located at the top of the
boiler.
❖ A high steam low water safety valve is also
provided near the stop valve and is used to release
the generated steam when the water level falls
below a certain level.
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Construction:
❖ Water feed pipe is there to feed water inside the
boiler.
❖ This feed pipe is controlled by feed valve. Steam
generated inside the boiler contains a large
quantity of water in the steam spaces and is called
priming.
❖ An anti prime pipe is provided to separate water
as far as possible.
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Construction:
❖ A blow-off cock is used to remove mud present
inside the bottom of the boiler.
❖ This blow-off cock can be used to completely
drain water from the boiler for inspection.
❖ A main hole is also present that is used to
inspect inside the boiler.
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Construction:
❖ A pressure gauge is also attached inside the
boilers which is used to know the amount of
pressure present inside the boiler when it is
under operation.
❖ Dampers are located at two side of the boiler
which are used to regulate the flow of air and it
also controls the steam generation.
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Working:
❖ At first, the fuel start to burn inside the furnace
and flue gas is generated.
❖ This flue gas passes through the boiler internal
firetube.
❖ This firetube is placed in the center of the water
area of the boiler.
❖ So the heat transfers from the flue gases inside
the firetube to the water.
❖ As the water is heated by the flue gases, steam is
generated.
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Working:
❖ The steam generated by heating water using flue
gas then goes through the priming pipe to the
engine.
❖ The flue gas from the internal firetube then goes to
the side flue and then to the bottom flue.
❖ The flue gases from the bottom flue goes to the
main flue which takes the flue gases to chimney
where it is passed to the atmosphere.
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Advantages:
❖ Cornish Boiler have very simple design and easy
construction.
❖ It is a compact and portable boiler.
❖ This boiler can overcome load fluctuation during
operation.
❖ Construction and maintenance cost of this boiler
is very low.
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Disadvantages:
❖ Low steam production rate of nearly 1350 kg/hr.
❖ It can take maximum steam pressure of 10.5 bar.
❖ Need more ground due to horizontal structure.
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Application:
❖ Cornish Boilers are used in many industries like
sugar, paper, tyre, chemical etc.
❖ Cornish Boilers are also used to produce steam
to run steam turbine.
❖ It is also found in many marine industries.
CORNISH BOILER
Application:
❖ Cornish Boilers are used in many industries like
sugar, paper, tyre, chemical etc.
❖ Cornish Boilers are also used to produce steam
to run steam turbine.
❖ It is also found in many marine industries.
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Comparing to Lancashire boiler:
❖ The Cornish boiler has a single flue tube, but
Lancashire has two tubes.
❖ Production of steam is also high than Lancashire
boiler. by this, the performance is high in
Lancashire boiler.
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