72.What is steam separators and how many types will be there in a drum?

The steam from the raiser tubes will be mixture of steam and water particles. This is known as wet steam. Steam shall be separated from water particles. The devices used are called steam separators.

This functions are done in the drum. The steam from raisers ate taken back to drum and there it is made to pass through the separators.

Centrifugal type of buckets of many in number will be provided. This is Primary separators. The steam will be passed through radiator kind of separators before leaving the drum at the top. This is known as Secondary separators.