Paris Tennessee Boiler Explosion

this is no cleaverbrooks boiler i live in paris and know where the plant is and i have pictures of the boiler in question,its a pretty steam display i think this is the relief valves blowing off,the paris boiler was injected in side the building and caused a lot of damage,the man inside was thrown into the metal wall,i talked to his mother he was burned badly but he did make it.

thats no boiler explosion.. If it was that camera would have been destroyed along with that building.

This doesn't look like the boiler went but the fire side. It was to instantaneous of a shock if you look at the wall when it goes. There is massive uniform deformation. Not localized like you would see with steam. Also if it were steam i do not think that guy would have survived. It doesn't take much dp across the brain to kill you.

I do agree this is not the Paris, Tennessee boiler explosion.
I did find some pictures of the event that were circulated to a lot of engineering crews in Northern California. These boilers are not Cleaver - Brooks Firetube boilers and it is true, in the Paris explosion the boiler went through a wall and ended up 100 ft away. In this footage that grayish material may be firebox refractory meaning this may have been a firebox gas explosion! I hope these weren't the new ones installed after!

Nope, just a single electric regulator I believe~

My God, I hope that never happens to us. Then again we would never bypass the low water cut-outs or leave them broken. As far as the Feedwater regulator, was there a auxilliary feedwater system set-up?. If we had to go on manual feedwater that boiler wouldn't go into a Low water condition on my watch! This video makes all better boiler operators, Thanks!
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A number of things, low water cutout mechanisms were broken or bypassed, the feedwater regulator was inoperative and had been isolated, they were modulating feedwater by hand through the bypass valve, a low water condition eventually resulted during high firing with no operator immediatly present and....technically speaking....kaboom!

So ,what caused the accident? They look like fairly new packaged watertube boilers.

I agree, it's not the Tenessee Incident. I work on Industrial Steam Boilers worldwide, & we have the Investigation report for that incident as part of our Training Programme. The Boiler did implode, then explode and was shot 100ft into the manufacturing area. The rear smoke box was blown off of the boiler and shot 100ft in the opposite direction causing the exterior wall to collapse, landing in a ditch after going across the car park and through a walkway. Still, impressive footage that, mind.

That's scary stuff!

whether this is the tennesee incident or not, steam explosions are a pretty serious thing. every one should be careful out there.

Doesn't look like the Tennessee incident - didn't the #2 boiler go through the wall in that accident? Either way, the engineer that re-entered the boiler house after the failure should have his license suspended.

This is bogus.. It is not the extrusion plant footage

loks like boiling water on camera sod that

Prick shoulda pressed that button stead of daydreamin A...

Whoa is this real, never mind replayed it over and saw the papers flying off the desk, was it the boiler in the right side of the frame?