furnace fuel
21fuel oils — Any liquid or liquefiable petroleum product burned for the generation of heat in a furnace or firebox or for the generation of power in an engine, exclusive of oils with a flash point below 100ºF and oils burned in cotton or wool wick burners …
22Furnace — (Residential) A combustion heating appliance in which heat is captured from the burning of a fuel for distribution, comprised mainly of a combustion chamber and heat exchanger. *** The part of a boiler or warm air space heating plant in… …
23furnace — [ˈfɜːnɪs] noun [C] a large enclosed container in which you burn fuel. It is used for heating a building or for an industrial process …
24furnace oil — noun : a fuel oil that can be burned in an atomizing burner and that is usually a distilled product having a gravity of from 36° to 40° Bé …
25Blast furnace — A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce metals, generally iron. In a blast furnace, fuel and ore are continuously supplied through the top of the furnace, while air (sometimes with oxygen enrichment) is… …
26blast furnace — a large vertical furnace for smelting iron from ore, using coke as fuel: designed so as to direct a continuous blast of air through the fuel in order to obtain a high rate of combustion. [1700 10] * * * Vertical shaft furnace that produces liquid …
27reverberatory furnace — Furnace used for smelting, refining, or melting in which the fuel is not in direct contact with the contents but heats it by a flame blown over it from another chamber. Such furnaces are used in copper, tin, and nickel production, in the… …
28Bustamente furnace — Furnace Fur nace, n. [OE. fornais, forneis, OF. fornaise, F. fournaise, from L. fornax; akin to furnus oven, and prob. to E. forceps.] 1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting… …
29gas furnace — furnace which burns gas fuel …
30Reverberatory furnace — A reverberatory furnace is a metallurgical or process furnace that isolates the material being processed from contact with the fuel, but not from contact with combustion gases. The term reverberation is used here in a generic sense of rebounding… …
