Equipment

A "water tube boiler" setup to run on fuel oil.

I like the Keller company logo. Very classy. Next to that I see the numbers '1959'. I wonder if this is a reference to the year the equipment was installed, or is it just a four digit room number?

This Boiler used #3 heating oil which was like TAR it was so Thick. What would happen is it would be atomized with steam which would come in on the light colored line on the right and the fuel would come in on the left the steam would be about 500 degrees (notice I said STEAM) it would make the fuel oil very thin when mixed and then would burn. The Steam out of these boilers would power the whole area it would give heat to the buildings during the winter. heat and cook the food in the food service buildings. There are miles of Pipes under the ground and when it would snow you could see the pipe lines they would be the tracks that would have no snow on them. Those days are long gone Now I am a Computer Geek

this is eerily awesome

@ E - what was the purpose of using heating oil in the first place as opposed to some other fraction of oil?