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2. Oil burner - Wikipedia

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   An oil burner for domestic central heating. An oil burner is a heating device which burns #1, #2 and #6 heating oils, diesel fuel or other similar fuels. In the United States, ultra low sulfur #2 diesel is the common fuel used. It is dyed red to show that it is road-tax exempt. In most markets of the United States, heating oil is the same ...

3. Industrial furnace - Wikipedia

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   Furnace burner. The burner in the vertical, cylindrical furnace as above, is located in the floor and fires upward. Some furnaces have side fired burners, such as in train locomotives. The burner tile is made of high temperature refractory and is where the flame is contained. Air registers located below the burner and at the outlet of the air ...

4. Furnace (central heating) - Wikipedia

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   An oil furnace A furnace ( American English ), referred to as a heater or boiler in British English , is an appliance used to generate heat for all or part of a building. Furnaces are mostly used as a major component of a central heating system .

5. Oil burner (engine) - Wikipedia

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   Oil Burning Locomotive: Southern Pacific 2472 at the Niles Canyon Railway An oil burner engine is a steam engine that uses oil as its fuel. The term is usually applied to a locomotive or ship engine that burns oil to heat water, to produce the steam which drives the pistons, or turbines, from which the power is derived.

6. Heating oil - Wikipedia

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   #2 Heating oil price, 1986–2022 Kerosene inventory stock levels (United States), 1993–2022. Heating oil is known in the United States as No. 2 heating oil. In the U.S., it must conform to ASTM standard D396. Diesel and kerosene, while often confused as being similar or identical, must each conform to their respective ASTM standards. [3]

7. Muffle furnace - Wikipedia

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   An Automatic Oil Muffle Furnace, circa 1910. Petroleum is contained in tank A, and is kept under pressure by pumping at intervals with the wooden handle, so that when the valve B is opened, the oil is vaporized by passing through a heating coil at the furnace entrance, and when ignited burns fiercely as a gas flame.