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How Boiler Combustion Works - Steam Culture

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00:00:03.940 00:00:03.950 hey guys welcome to this week's team
00:00:06.410 00:00:06.420 culture it's loud out and here a lot of
00:00:08.839 00:00:08.849 trucks so I'm going to yell at you
00:00:10.549 00:00:10.559 so I'm singing to this week's episode I
00:00:12.410 00:00:12.420 thought we talked about the power of
00:00:13.789 00:00:13.799 steam and everything and we know you got
00:00:15.860 00:00:15.870 to boil water to make steam
00:00:17.359 00:00:17.369 you got to boil it so you need heat and
00:00:19.670 00:00:19.680 fire and the fire side keeps getting
00:00:22.310 00:00:22.320 hosed so I want to talk about it this
00:00:24.320 00:00:24.330 week we're going to be at our new boiler
00:00:25.730 00:00:25.740 you facility come on inside we're going
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00:00:32.950 00:00:32.960 00:00:37.479 00:00:37.489 all right so let's go inside look at our
00:00:39.250 00:00:39.260 awesome new training facility I'm gonna
00:00:41.170 00:00:41.180 take you room by room through it so this
00:00:43.330 00:00:43.340 is our entryway this is our front
00:00:49.660 00:00:49.670 training room question alright and this
00:00:55.930 00:00:55.940 is our general purpose lounge slash
00:00:59.229 00:00:59.239 lunch area
00:01:02.300 00:01:02.310 00:01:06.510 00:01:06.520 bathroom okay and into our large 60-seat
00:01:11.560 00:01:11.570 training auditorium is it true that the
00:01:14.620 00:01:14.630 term for perfect combustion is
00:01:15.970 00:01:15.980 stoichiometric all right so in order to
00:01:18.730 00:01:18.740 make steam you've got to raise the
00:01:19.900 00:01:19.910 temperature in fact at atmospheric
00:01:21.400 00:01:21.410 conditions you need to raise it to 212
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00:01:26.290 00:01:26.300 that is with a heat source there's
00:01:28.030 00:01:28.040 several different heat sources as we've
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00:01:31.390 00:01:31.400 we're going to talk about my favorite
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00:01:35.260 00:01:35.270 thing to remember there is something
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00:01:37.780 00:01:37.790 need three elements to make fire you
00:01:40.180 00:01:40.190 need air or oxygen you need a heat
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00:01:45.190 00:01:45.200 so we are going to accomplish that in
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00:01:49.570 00:01:49.580 firetube boiler works we're gonna make
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00:01:53.350 00:01:53.360 have a fuel source and we're gonna have
00:01:55.660 00:01:55.670 air and we're gonna have fuel which is
00:01:58.120 00:01:58.130 in this case natural gas and the
00:02:00.130 00:02:00.140 interesting thing about this boiler is
00:02:01.420 00:02:01.430 there's a large tube in the middle the
00:02:03.310 00:02:03.320 fire goes down bounces around comes back
00:02:06.670 00:02:06.680 this way bounces around and goes out the
00:02:09.010 00:02:09.020 stack in the back but what you need to
00:02:10.960 00:02:10.970 know about this boiler is why these the
00:02:12.790 00:02:12.800 fire is bouncing around in these tubes
00:02:14.260 00:02:14.270 there's actually water all the way
00:02:16.210 00:02:16.220 around it now let's go up front because
00:02:18.070 00:02:18.080 I have a cutout and we're gonna show you
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00:02:20.290 00:02:20.300 alright so we're saying we need fuel we
00:02:22.870 00:02:22.880 need air and then we need a source of
00:02:25.510 00:02:25.520 heat or something to ignite the fuel in
00:02:28.120 00:02:28.130 the air so this right here is called a
00:02:29.770 00:02:29.780 gas train this is gonna bring the
00:02:31.060 00:02:31.070 natural gas to the burner which is over
00:02:33.490 00:02:33.500 here there's also a fan to bring in
00:02:35.410 00:02:35.420 enough air to make fire and down in here
00:02:37.660 00:02:37.670 is an ignition rod or igniter and it's
00:02:39.729 00:02:39.739 gonna spark and it's gonna boom make
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00:02:43.570 00:02:43.580 this is where the steam gets made
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00:03:04.940 00:03:04.950 what I need you to know is if you see
00:03:07.350 00:03:07.360 the blue imagine this whole area being
00:03:11.670 00:03:11.680 covered in water all these tubes all the
00:03:14.100 00:03:14.110 way up to here probably are covered in
00:03:15.570 00:03:15.580 water the steam is up here being formed
00:03:18.840 00:03:18.850 and that's where it's heads out the
00:03:21.059 00:03:21.069 steam header and goes to different parts
00:03:23.760 00:03:23.770 of the plant so when we've talked about
00:03:25.460 00:03:25.470 making resin or even the food production
00:03:28.979 00:03:28.989 we've talked about it's made in a boiler
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00:03:33.030 00:03:33.040 that you know that steams got to be made
00:03:34.890 00:03:34.900 somewhere and it's made with heating up
00:03:37.229 00:03:37.239 water and this is how you do it in a
00:03:39.780 00:03:39.790 boiler like this so I feel like we've
00:03:41.580 00:03:41.590 done it justice this week I hope you
00:03:42.960 00:03:42.970 enjoyed our episode this week maybe knew
00:03:45.059 00:03:45.069 that already but if you didn't you do
00:03:46.949 00:03:46.959 now because you watch steam culture so
00:03:48.600 00:03:48.610 thanks for watching
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