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  2. 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 ...

  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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    The system was simple, had few controls, a single automatic gas valve, and no blower. These furnaces could be made to work with any fuel simply by adapting the burner area. They have been operated with wood, coke, coal, trash, paper, natural gas, fuel oil as well as whale oil for a brief period at the turn of the century.

  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. 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 ...

  7. RWB - Wikipedia

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    RWB may refer to: "Red, white & blue", the colors of the Flag of the United States; Red Wanting Blue, an American indie rock group; Reporters Without Borders; Resorts World Bhd, subsidiary of Genting Bhd that manages a casino resort in Pahang, Malaysia; Royal Winnipeg Ballet; Royal Wootton Bassett, a town in Wiltshire, UK

  8. Argand lamp - Wikipedia

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    An Argand lamp used whale oil, seal oil, colza, olive oil [2] or other vegetable oil as fuel which was supplied by a gravity feed from a reservoir mounted above the burner. A disadvantage of the original Argand arrangement was that the oil reservoir needed to be above the level of the burner because the heavy, sticky vegetable oil would not ...

  9. Coal burner - Wikipedia

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    Coal burner working as a component of an asphalt plant in Thailand. A coal burner (or pulverized coal burner) is a mechanical device that burns pulverized coal (also known as powdered coal or coal dust since it is as fine as face powder in cosmetic makeup) into a flame in a controlled manner.