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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. 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.

6. Staged combustion - Wikipedia

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   Another method of fuel staged combustion is fuel biasing. In fuel biasing, combustion is staged by diverting fuel from the upper-level burners to the lower ones or from the center to the side burners. The aim is to create a fuel-rich lower or central zone and a fuel-lean upper or side zone in order to achieve complete burnout.

7. Open-hearth furnace - Wikipedia

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   Open hearth furnace workers at the Zaporizhstal steel mill in Ukraine taking a steel sample, c. 2012 Tapping open-hearth furnace, VEB Rohrkombinat Riesa, East Germany, 1982. An open-hearth furnace or open hearth furnace is any of several kinds of industrial furnace in which excess carbon and other impurities are burnt out of pig iron to produce ...

8. LO-NOx burner - Wikipedia

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   It is well established that conventional "blue flame" or bunsen gas burners produce oxides of nitrogen at levels of 30-50 nanograms per joule [5] [6] and are as such not considered to have potential for NO x reduction. Surface combustion burners or radiant tile burners in comparison produce nitrogen oxides' levels 60-70% less. [6]

9. Baffle (heat transfer) - Wikipedia

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   Cross-sectional diagram of stirred tank reactor. Baffles are flow-directing or obstructing vanes or panels used to direct a flow of liquid or gas. It is used in some household stoves [1] and in some industrial process vessels (tanks), such as shell and tube heat exchangers, chemical reactors, and static mixers.