through-type furnace
11Vacuum furnace — A vacuum furnace is a type of furnace that can heat materials, typically metals, to very high temperatures and carry out processes such as brazing, sintering and heat treatment with high consistency and low contamination. In a vacuum furnace the… …
12electric furnace — a furnace in which the heat required is produced through electricity. [1880 85] * * * Chamber heated with electricity to very high temperatures, for melting and alloying metals and refractories. Modern electric furnaces generally are either arc… …
13Cyclone furnace — A cyclone furnace is a type of coal combustor commonly used in large industrial boilers. Background Developed in the early 1942 by Babcock Wilcox to take advantage of coal grades not suitable for pulverized coal combustion, cyclone furnaces feed… …
14Central 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… …
15Basic oxygen furnace — A basic oxygen furnace, also known as an LD converter , is the place within an integrated steel mill where molten iron from the blast furnace is changed into liquid steel. LD is short for Linz Donawitz, the names of the two towns in Austria, near …
16Condensing 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… …
17Roots type supercharger — The Roots type supercharger or Roots blower is a positive displacement pump which operates by pulling air through a pair of meshing lobes not unlike a set of stretched gears. Air is trapped in pockets surrounding the lobes and carried from the… …
18induction furnace — noun : an electric furnace heated by a current which is caused to flow through the charge by electromagnetic induction compare arc furnace * * * Metall. a type of electric furnace used for melting a charge of scrap by the heat produced by its own …
19Graphite furnace atomic absorption — spectrometry (GFAAS) (also known as Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (ETAAS)) is a type of spectrometry that uses a graphite coated furnace to vaporize the sample. Briefly, the technique is based on the fact that free atoms will… …
20Forced Air System or Furnace — A type of heating system in which heated air is blown by a fan through air channels or ducts to rooms …
