what is the difference between a boiler and a pressure cooker?

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what is the difference between a boiler and a pressure cooker?..

Answer / abdul hameed

1. Boiler has only Safety Valve. Pressure cooker has Safety
valve & Relief valve.
2. At constant pressure, Volume of steeam can be varried in
Boiler. Whereas in Pressure cooker volume is constant.

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what is the difference between a boiler and a pressure cooker?..

Answer / sudip

If the capacity of the system is more than 22.4ltrs,it will be called boiler else it is pressure cooker.
A boiler is bigger and there some extra valves,where as in cooker,only relief and safety valve available.

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what is the difference between a boiler and a pressure cooker?..

Answer / vivek.kushwaha

Boiler is the use only one construction &operation site purpose steam supply and pressure cooker is use cooking purpose

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what is the difference between a boiler and a pressure cooker?..

Answer / sumit shete

By boiler steam is superheated but by
pressure cooker steam is saturated.
Also diffrance between steam output.
Metal used for construction.
Size diffrance also

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what is the difference between a boiler and a pressure cooker?..

Answer / talha imtiaz

Though the function of cooker and boiler is same to heat the liquid at a high temperature, but a boiler can heat the fluid on a higher temperature than a pressure cooker. The boilers also offer the facility of an inlet and an outlet whereas a pressure cooker operates with the same amount of liquid. All in all, boilers are more preferred over pressure cookers.

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what is the difference between a boiler and a pressure cooker?..

Answer / kshitiz deep

The main difference between boilers and pressure cooker is boiler has a steady state flow while pressure cooker is unsteady flow type

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what is the difference between a boiler and a pressure cooker?..

Answer / hardik085gmdc

in boiler firing is inside the boiler where pressure cooker firing is outside of vessel.second is the water pressure is nearer to saturation temperature in pressure cooker so it takes only sensible heat. when boiler is taken sensible,latent and super heat.

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what is the difference between a boiler and a pressure cooker?..

Answer / krishnan

Boiler is used to supply heat by the combustion of fuel to generate steam i.e. it is heat supplier. Steam cooker on the other hand receives steam from external source (LPG) and converts water to steam required for the purpose of cooking.

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what is the difference between a boiler and a pressure cooker?..

Answer / gauranga

boiler can not relief the internal airpressure where
pressure cooker relief the air pressure when reach to the
certain preesure .

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