furnace fuel
61Central warm air furnace — A type of space heating equipment where a central combustor or resistance unit generally using gas, fuel oil, or electricity provides warm air through ducts leading to the various rooms. Heat pumps are not included in this category. A forced… …
62Condensing Furnace — A type of heating appliance that extracts so much of the available heat content from a combusted fuel that the moisture in the combustion gases condenses before it leaves the furnace. Also this furnace circulates a liquid to cool the furnace s… …
63Floor, wall, or pipeless furnace — Space heating equipment consisting of a ductless combustor or resistance unit, having an enclosed chamber where fuel is burned or where electrical resistance heat is generated to warm the rooms of a building. A floor furnace is located below… …
64gas furnace — n. 1. a furnace or reactor that distills gas from coal, etc. 2. a furnace that burns gas as fuel …
65Wet bottom furnace — A wet bottom boiler is boiler that contains a wet bottom furnace. It is a kind of boiler used for pulverised fuel firing.In wet bottom boiler the bottom ash is kept in a molten state and tapped off as a liquid. Wet bottom boiler slag is a term… …
66slag-tap furnace — noun : a blast furnace or pulverized fuel furnace with a tap opening in the bottom for removal of slag …
67gas-furnace — gasˈ furnace noun A furnace of which the fuel is gas • • • Main Entry: ↑gas …
68cyclone furnace — a furnace burning liquid or pulverized fuel in a whirling air column. * * * …
69Blast-furnace gas — The waste combustible gas generated in a blast furnace when iron ore is being reduced with coke to metallic iron. It is commonly used as a fuel within steel works. U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration s Energy Glossary …
70Blast furnace — A furnace in which solid fuel (coke) is burned with an air blast to smelt ore. U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration s Energy Glossary …
