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r and pressure vessel failures. Approximately one out of every tenfailures is a furnace explosion. In automatically operated oil and gas-fired boilers, furnace explosions have resulted from delayed or poorignition; accidents which may occur, for example, from low voltage orfrom impurities in the… … Figure 3—(^^ft) and 5A (Right)—Two pictures showing some of thedamage caused by a furn-ace explosion to a large water-tube boilerin an Arizona utility power house. The one at the left shows onewall of the boilers economizer bulged out several inches, while theother gives a viezu of damaged…
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