Specification of Boiler Laundry Hospital Hotel Industry
We often hear about the fire from a laundry or garment / textile due to the explosion of this boiler device. Either due to negligence or due to malfunction of the tool. Of course this should be the priority attention of the laundry entrepreneurs about the safety issues of this boiler so that later we avoid this catastrophe. KNOW WHAT IS A BOILER? Boiler or known as a boiler is a machine device whose function is to convert water into steam. This process is the change of water into steam occurs by heating the water in the pipes by utilizing heat from the burning of fuel. Burning is done continuously in the combustion chamber by draining fuel and air from outside. The steam generated from the boiler is superheat (very hot) vapor with high pressure and temperature. The amount of vapor production depends on the surface area of heat transfer, flow rate, and combustion heat provided. Of course the boiler function on the type of laundry is different from for example a ship that requires large energy. In commercial-class laundry facilities also have a large boiler units such as laundry hotels, laundry hospitals whose workmanship requires enormous energy from washing, drying to large-scale irons. It is believed that the use of boilers is more economical than electric power. USE OF THE BOILER ON THE KILOAN LAUNDRY SCALE Boiler or in laundry term call it gas steam iron is widely used in laundry kiloan at this time. The use of the boiler will certainly speed up the completion of the work. In addition to more neat also economical than using electric iron. But the operator should be alert on this device. Lack of maintenance or misuse will result in catastrophe for laundry employees. But the author is not scaring not to use boiler which is more effective in terms of time and energy. WHAT CAUSE THE BOILER IS EXPLOSING? Under Pascal's law that the pressure given by liquids in a confined space will continue to be the same in all directions, whereas Bernouli's law on the basis of fluid flow is said to increase the speed of a liquid or gas, resulting in a decrease in the pressure on the liquid or gas .