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  2. Furnace (central heating) - Wikipedia

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    These furnaces were still big and bulky compared to modern furnaces, and had heavy-steel exteriors with bolt-on removable panels. Energy efficiency would range anywhere from just over 50% to upward of 65% AFUE. This style furnace still used large, masonry or brick chimneys for flues and was eventually designed to accommodate air-conditioning ...

  3. Chimney - Wikipedia

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    A chimney is an architectural ventilation structure made of masonry, clay or metal that isolates hot toxic exhaust gases or smoke produced by a boiler, stove, furnace, incinerator, or fireplace from human living areas.

  4. District heating - Wikipedia

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    The Spittelau incineration plant is one of several plants that provide district heating in Vienna, Austria. Animated image showing how district heating works. District heating (also known as heat networks) is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location through a system of insulated pipes for residential and commercial heating requirements such as space heating and water ...

  5. Furnace - Wikipedia

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    Furnace (central heating): a furnace, or a heater or boiler, used to generate heat for buildings; Boiler, used to heat water; also called a furnace in American English when used for heating and hot water in a building; Jetstream furnace or Tempest boiler, a design of wood-fired water heater

  6. Suncor Energy Centre - Wikipedia

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    The Suncor Energy Centre, [5] formerly the Petro-Canada Centre, is a 181,000-square-metre (1,950,000 sq ft) project composed of two granite and reflective glass-clad office towers of 32 floors and 52 floors, in the office core of downtown Calgary, Alberta.

  7. Thermal lance - Wikipedia

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    This technique is often used on the pins and axles of large equipment such as cranes, ships, bridges, and sluice-gates. In addition, thermal lancing is used to clean the bottom of steel furnace pots, which accumulate a skull layer of slag and iron during operation. [3]

  8. Duct (flow) - Wikipedia

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    Ducts for air pollution control in a 17000 standard cubic feet per minute regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO). A round galvanized steel duct connecting to a typical diffuser Fire-resistance rated mechanical shaft with HVAC sheet metal ducting and copper piping, as well as "HOW" (Head-Of-Wall) joint between top of concrete block wall and underside of concrete slab, firestopped with ceramic ...

  9. Canadian Silver Maple Leaf - Wikipedia

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    Samples of the Silver Maple Leaf often carry a blemish that has a milky-white appearance, called a milk spot. This happens when a cleaning detergent is left on the coin when it goes into the annealing furnace. [citation needed]. This issue was addressed in 2018 with the RCM introduction of "MINTSHIELD" surface protection technology to prevent ...