美国、西欧和日本的锅炉制造业是在有机燃料火电站和原子能电站之间互相竞争的条件下发展的。最近三年以来原子能电站设备发展迅速;同时,许多国家石油和天然气的缺乏亦严重地影响锅炉生产的发展。在火电设备订货量相对缩减的情况下,目前电站锅炉的生产(按1000吨/时蒸发量计)不太稳定(见表1)。 Boiler manufacturing in the United States, Western Europe and Japan developed under conditions of competition between organic-fired and nuclear power plants. Atomic power station equipment has been developing rapidly in the last three years; at the same time, the lack of oil and natural gas in many countries has also seriously affected the development of boiler production. With the relative reduction of thermal equipment orders, the production of power station boilers (at 1000 t / h evaporation) is not yet stable (see Table 1).