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85 relations: Air conditioning, American English, Annual fuel utilization efficiency, Atmosphere of Earth, Basic oxygen steelmaking, Batch oven, Bessemer process, Blast furnace, Boiler, British English, Building, Canadian English, Ceramic, Chemical reaction, Chemical reactor, Clinker (waste), Coal, Combustion, Cremation, Duct (flow), Electric arc furnace, Electrical resistance and conductance, English language, Fan (machine), Fan heater, Fire, Fire test, Firebox (steam engine), Flued boiler, Forced-air, Forced-air gas, Forge, Foundry, Fractional distillation, Friction, Fuel, Fuel oil, Gas burner, Geothermal heat pump, Glass melting furnace, Heat exchanger, Heat treating, House, HVAC, Induction furnace, Induction heating, Industrial furnace, Industry, Iron ore, Jetstream furnace, ..., Kiln, Latin, Liquefied petroleum gas, Major appliance, Masonry heater, Metal, Metallurgy, Natural convection, Natural gas, Natural resource, Oil refinery, Open hearth furnace, Ore, Outdoor wood-fired boiler, Oven, Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, Pig iron, Plenum space, Puddling (metallurgy), Radiant energy, Redox, Reverberatory furnace, Rolling (metalworking), Russian oven, Slitting mill, Smelting, Solar furnace, Steam, Steelmaking, Thermal efficiency, Tinplate, Vacuum furnace, Water, Water heating, Wood. Expand index (35 more) »
Air conditioning
Air conditioning (often referred to as AC, A/C, or air con) is the process of removing heat and moisture from the interior of an occupied space, to improve the comfort of occupants.
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American English
American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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Annual fuel utilization efficiency
The annual fuel utilization efficiency (AFUE; pronounced 'A'-'Few' or 'A'-'F'-'U'-'E') is a thermal efficiency measure of space-heating furnaces and boilers.
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Atmosphere of Earth
The atmosphere of Earth is the layer of gases, commonly known as air, that surrounds the planet Earth and is retained by Earth's gravity.
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Basic oxygen steelmaking
Basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS, BOP, BOF, or OSM), also known as Linz–Donawitz-steelmaking or the oxygen converter processBrock and Elzinga, p. 50.
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Batch oven
Batch ovens are a type of furnace used for thermal processing.
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Bessemer process
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.
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Blast furnace
A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper.
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Boiler
A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.
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British English
British English is the standard dialect of English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom.
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Building
A building, or edifice, is a structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory.
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Canadian English
Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Canada.
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Ceramic
A ceramic is a non-metallic solid material comprising an inorganic compound of metal, non-metal or metalloid atoms primarily held in ionic and covalent bonds.
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Chemical reaction
A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the transformation of one set of chemical substances to another.
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Chemical reactor
A chemical reactor is an enclosed volume in which a chemical reaction takes place.
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Clinker (waste)
Clinker is a general name given to waste from industrial processes, particularly those that involve smelting metals, welding, burning fossil fuels and use of a blacksmith's forge, which commonly causes a large buildup of clinker around the tuyere.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
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Combustion
Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke.
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Cremation
Cremation is the combustion, vaporization, and oxidation of cadavers to basic chemical compounds, such as gases, ashes and mineral fragments retaining the appearance of dry bone.
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Duct (flow)
Ducts are conduits or passages used in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) to deliver and remove air.
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Electric arc furnace
An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats charged material by means of an electric arc.
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Electrical resistance and conductance
The electrical resistance of an electrical conductor is a measure of the difficulty to pass an electric current through that conductor.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Fan (machine)
A mechanical fan is a powered machine used to create flow within a fluid, typically a gas such as air.
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Fan heater
A fan heater, also called a blow heater, is a heater that works by using a fan to pass air over a heat source (e.g. a heating element).
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Fire
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products.
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Fire test
A fire test is a means of determining whether fire protection products meet minimum performance criteria as set out in a building code or other applicable legislation.
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Firebox (steam engine)
In a steam engine, the firebox is the area where the fuel is burned, producing heat to boil the water in the boiler.
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Flued boiler
A shell or flued boiler is an early and relatively simple form of boiler used to make steam, usually for the purpose of driving a steam engine.
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Forced-air
A forced-air central heating system is one which uses air as its heat transfer medium.
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Forced-air gas
Forced-air gas heating systems are used in central air heating/cooling systems for houses.
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Forge
A forge is a type of hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace (smithy) where such a hearth is located.
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Foundry
A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings.
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Fractional distillation
Fractional distillation is the separation of a mixture into its component parts, or fractions.
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Friction
Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other.
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Fuel
A fuel is any material that can be made to react with other substances so that it releases energy as heat energy or to be used for work.
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Fuel oil
Fuel oil (also known as heavy oil, marine fuel or furnace oil) is a fraction obtained from petroleum distillation, either as a distillate or a residue.
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Gas burner
A gas burner is a device that produces a 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 combustion.
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Geothermal heat pump
A geothermal heat pump or ground source heat pump (GSHP) is a central heating and/or cooling system that transfers heat to or from the ground.
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Glass melting furnace
A glass melting furnace is a furnace which is designed to melt raw materials into glass.
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Heat exchanger
A heat exchanger is a device used to transfer heat between two or more fluids.
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Heat treating
Heat treating (or heat treatment) is a group of industrial and metalworking processes used to alter the physical, and sometimes chemical, properties of a material.
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House
A house is a building that functions as a home.
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HVAC
Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) is the technology of indoor and vehicular environmental comfort.
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Induction furnace
An Induction Furnace is an electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal.
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Induction heating
Induction heating is the process of heating an electrically conducting object (usually a metal) by electromagnetic induction, through heat generated in the object by eddy currents.
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Industrial furnace
The purpose of an industrial furnace is to attain a higher processing temperature in comparison to open-air systems, as well as the efficiency gains of a closed system.
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Industry
Industry is the production of goods or related services within an economy.
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Iron ore
Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.
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Jetstream furnace
Jetstream furnaces (later Tempest wood-burning boilers), were an advanced design of wood-fired water heaters conceived by Dr.
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Kiln
A kiln (or, originally pronounced "kill", with the "n" silent) is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Liquefied petroleum gas
Liquefied petroleum gas or liquid petroleum gas (LPG or LP gas), also referred to as simply propane or butane, are flammable mixtures of hydrocarbon gases used as fuel in heating appliances, cooking equipment, and vehicles.
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Major appliance
A major appliance, or domestic appliance, is a large machine in home appliance used for routine housekeeping tasks such as cooking, washing laundry, or food preservation.
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Masonry heater
A masonry heater (or masonry stove, ceramic stove, tile stove) is a device for warming an interior space through radiant heating, by capturing the heat from periodic burning of fuel (usually wood), and then radiating the heat at a fairly constant temperature for a long period.
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Metal
A metal (from Greek μέταλλον métallon, "mine, quarry, metal") is a material (an element, compound, or alloy) that is typically hard when in solid state, opaque, shiny, and has good electrical and thermal conductivity.
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Metallurgy
Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys.
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Natural convection
Natural convection is a mechanism, or type of heat transport, in which the fluid motion is not generated by any external source (like a pump, fan, suction device, etc.) but only by density differences in the fluid occurring due to temperature gradients.
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Natural gas
Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.
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Natural resource
Natural resources are resources that exist without actions of humankind.
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Oil refinery
Oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is transformed and refined into more useful products such as petroleum naphtha, gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas, jet fuel and fuel oils.
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Open hearth furnace
Open hearth furnaces are one of a number of kinds of furnace where excess carbon and other impurities are burnt out of pig iron to produce steel.
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Ore
An ore is an occurrence of rock or sediment that contains sufficient minerals with economically important elements, typically metals, that can be economically extracted from the deposit.
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Outdoor wood-fired boiler
The outdoor wood boiler is a variant of the classic wood stove adapted for set-up outdoors while still transferring the heat to interior buildings.
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Oven
An oven is a thermally insulated chamber used for the heating, baking, or drying of a substance, and most commonly used for cooking.
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Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook
Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook (also known as Perry's Handbook, Perry's, or The Chemical Engineer's Bible) was first published in 1934 and the most current eighth edition was published in October 2007.
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Pig iron
Pig iron is an intermediate product of the iron industry.
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Plenum space
A plenum space is a part of a building that can facilitate air circulation for heating and air conditioning systems, by providing pathways for either heated/conditioned or return airflows, usually at greater than atmospheric pressure.
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Puddling (metallurgy)
Puddling was one step in one of the most important processes of making the first appreciable volumes of high-grade bar iron (malleable wrought iron) during the Industrial Revolution.
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Radiant energy
In physics, and in particular as measured by radiometry, radiant energy is the energy of electromagnetic and gravitational radiation.
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Redox
Redox (short for reduction–oxidation reaction) (pronunciation: or) is a chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of atoms are changed.
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Reverberatory 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.
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Rolling (metalworking)
In metalworking, rolling is a metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through one or more pairs of rolls to reduce the thickness and to make the thickness uniform.
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Russian oven
A Russian oven or Russian stove (Русская печь) is a unique type of masonry stove that first appeared in the 15th century.
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Slitting mill
The slitting mill was a watermill for slitting bars of iron into rods.
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Smelting
Smelting is a process of applying heat to ore in order to melt out a base metal.
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Solar furnace
A solar furnace is a structure that uses concentrated solar power to produce high temperatures, usually for industry.
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Steam
Steam is water in the gas phase, which is formed when water boils.
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Steelmaking
Steelmaking is the process for producing steel from iron ore and scrap.
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Thermal efficiency
In thermodynamics, the thermal efficiency (\eta_ \) is a dimensionless performance measure of a device that uses thermal energy, such as an internal combustion engine, a steam turbine or a steam engine, a boiler, furnace, or a refrigerator for example.
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Tinplate
Tinplate consists of sheets of steel, coated with a thin layer of tin.
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Vacuum furnace
A vacuum furnace is a type of furnace in which the product in the furnace is surrounded by a vacuum during processing.
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Water
Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.
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Water heating
Water heating is a heat transfer process that uses an energy source to heat water above its initial temperature.
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Wood
Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furnace
