what is asteam boiler furnace
There is no such thing as a steam boiler furnace. A boiler heats water. A furnace heats air. If the heating system is steam or hot water, the heating unit is a boiler. If the heating system is warm air, the heating unit is a furnace.
Two types of boilers, HOT WATER and STEAM. Steam boilers operate at higher temperatures. They also require traps at the the registers. As the steam cools, it turns back into water. The traps catch the water and then it goes back to the boiler in the return line to be turned back into steam.
Its a furnace that heats water until it becomes steam. then pipes carry the hot steam to radiators where they give off heat to warm a room. Steam has lots of other uses too.
steam boiler has two parts the furnace and water tubes. Normally the tubes form the wall of the furnace so that heat from the furnace can directly reach the tubes. The furnace is the combustion area where the fuel (coal/oil) gets burned and produces the heat.
