These three words identify products or better families of products well defined, but as often happens, both for the contiguity of these fields operational and the habits on the market, often there creates confusion.
The boilers are equipment within which it develops the heat, with various methods and technologies to heat water, which can then be used for various civil and industrial purposes.
Water may be super-heated and can generate large quantities of vapour. Since that a small amount is generated in any case, when the vapour is an objective and not a secondary result, we found steam boilers, more properly identified as steam generators.
For this reason often in the production it is used without distinction the term boiler or steam generator to indicate the same product, but if we want to avoid confusion we should distinguish between the two families.
Stoves can be fired by various fuels and may produce heat for the environment, or heat water that can be used for various purposes. In this last case, the oven turns to boiler and of course it is subjected to the legislation and the marketing of it.
Therefore stoves, boilers and generators always produce heat and excepting for normal stoves they transfer it to water, but are products that work with different purposes and it is therefore necessary to avoid confusion.
All these products must be CE marked , but the type of procedures that the manufacturer must follow are different from case to case and in many cases it is necessary the intervention of a notified body to demonstrate the compliance of the product to the regulations.
