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  2. 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.

  3. Oil burner - Wikipedia

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    An oil burner is a part attached to an oil furnace, water heater, or boiler. [1] It provides the ignition of heating oil/biodiesel fuel used to heat either air or water via a heat exchanger . The fuel is atomized into a fine spray usually by forcing it under pressure through a nozzle which gives the resulting flame a specific flow rate, angle ...

  4. GWR oil burning steam locomotives - Wikipedia

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    GWR No. 101 was an experimental 0-4-0 side-tank locomotive built at Swindon Works under the direction of Churchward in June 1902. Initially built as an oil-burning locomotive, it was rebuilt in 1905 as a coal burner, with the cab backplate replaced by a bunker.

  5. Industrial furnace - Wikipedia

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    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 blower are ...

  6. Burner - Wikipedia

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    Burner may refer to: Gas burner, coal burner or oil burner, a mechanical device that burns a gas or liquid fuel in a controlled manner Laboratory gas burners: Bunsen burner; Meker–Fisher burner; Teclu burner; Hot-air balloon device, a device to inflate a hot air balloon; Burner (rocket stage)

  7. Auto reignition - Wikipedia

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    Auto reignition lowers the risk of gas leaks: if a flame goes out during operation, for example, from vibration or a gust of wind; due to misoperation—a user might not understand the "light" position must be maintained for about 0.5 to 2 seconds before turning the burner knob on fully.

  8. Gas burner - Wikipedia

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    Propane burner with a Bunsen flame Oxy-Acetylene for cutting through steel rails Flame of a gas and oil, in a dual burner. A gas burner is a device that produces a non-controlled flame by mixing a fuel gas such as acetylene, natural gas, or propane with an oxidizer such as the ambient air or supplied oxygen, and allowing for ignition and ...

  9. Fluidized bed combustion - Wikipedia

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    FBC smoke tube boiler. Fluidized bed combustion (FBC) is a combustion technology used to burn solid fuels.. In its most basic form, fuel particles are suspended in a hot, bubbling fluidity bed of ash and other particulate materials (sand, limestone etc.) through which jets of air are blown to provide the oxygen required for combustion or gasification.