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  2. Kerosene heater - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese non-vented "fan" heater burns kerosene gas and is known as a gasification type heater. The liquid kerosene fuel is pre-heated via an electric heating element to vaporize the fuel. The resulting gas is collected and forced into the burn chamber where it is ignited and burns with a blue flame, similar to propane.

  3. Kerosene - Wikipedia

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    Advertisement for an oil stove, from the Albion Lamp Company, Birmingham, England, c. 1900 Old kerosene stoves from India. In countries such as Nigeria, kerosene is the main fuel used for cooking, especially by the poor, and kerosene stoves have replaced traditional wood-based cooking appliances.

  4. Heating oil - Wikipedia

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    Heating oil consists of a mixture of petroleum-derived hydrocarbons in the 14- to 20-carbon atom range that condense between 250 and 350 °C (482 and 662 °F) during oil refining. Heating oil condenses at a lower temperature than petroleum jelly , bitumen , candle wax , and lubricating oil , but at a higher temperature than kerosene , which ...

  5. Energy poverty and cooking - Wikipedia

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    Electricity can be used to power appliances such as electric pressure cookers, rice cookers, and highly efficient induction stoves, in addition to standard electric stoves. Electric induction stoves are so efficient that they create less pollution than liquified petroleum gas (LPG) even when connected to coal power sources, and are sometimes ...

  6. Stove - Wikipedia

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    Efficiency is generally regarded as the maximum heat output of a stove or fire, and is usually referred to by manufacturers as the difference between heat to the room and heat lost up the chimney. An early improvement was the fire chamber : the fire was enclosed on three sides by masonry walls and covered by an iron plate.

  7. Portable stove - Wikipedia

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    A small Snow Peak portable stove running on MSR gas and the stove's carrying case The parts of portable gas stovegas cartridge, burner and regulator. A portable stove is a cooking stove specially designed to be portable and lightweight, used in camping, picnicking, backpacking, or other use in remote locations where an easily transportable means of cooking or heating is needed.

  8. Heat of combustion - Wikipedia

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    The difference between the two heating values depends on the chemical composition of the fuel. In the case of pure carbon or carbon monoxide, the two heating values are almost identical, the difference being the sensible heat content of carbon dioxide between 150 °C and 25 °C ( sensible heat exchange causes a change of temperature, while ...

  9. History of manufactured fuel gases - Wikipedia

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    The gas-works and adjacent district would smell of rotten eggs when the gas-works was producing gas; The gas, upon burning, would form sulfur dioxide, which would be quickly oxidized to sulfur trioxide, and subsequently would react with the water vapor produced by combustion to form sulfuric acid vapour. In a dwelling-house, this could lead to ...

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