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Definition of Auxiliary boiler
1. Noun. (nautical) an extra boiler (as a ship's boiler that is used while the ship is in port).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Auxiliary Boiler
Literary usage of Auxiliary boiler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Steam Power Plant Piping System: Their Design, Installation and Maintenance by William Lorenzo Morris (1909)
"The method of connecting the auxiliary boiler feed main has been shown in an ...
No boiler plant should be installed without an auxiliary boiler feed main, ..."
2. A Treatise on Producer-gas and Gas-producers by Samuel S. Wyer (1906)
"auxiliary boiler. When an auxiliary boiler or vaporizer is used to furnish the
steam for the producer, ..."
3. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1852)
"The fire surface of this auxiliary boiler is lined with fire-brick, so as to
prevent the auxiliary boiler absorbing too much of the heat necessary for well ..."
4. Iron edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1852)
"My method of constructing and using such auxiliary boiler is as follows :—I ...
The fire surface of this auxiliary boiler is lined with fire-brick, ..."
5. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1899)
"... and fired fore and aft; the auxiliary boiler for supplying steam to all the
auxiliary engines in the ship—about sixty in number—being 10 feet diameter ..."
6. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1852)
"The upper end of the condenser is also connected with the auxiliary boiler by
means of a pipe (/, provided with a stopcock at s; by means of which the ..."
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