heat for all or part of a building. Furnaces are mostly used as a major component of a central heating system. Furnaces are permanently installed to provide...
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systems, which can both cool and warm interior spaces. A central heating system has a furnace that converts fuel or electricity to heat. The heat is circulated...
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Look up furnace in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Furnace may refer to: Furnace (central heating): a furnace, or a heater or boiler, used to generate...
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Higher AFUE ratings indicate a more efficient furnace. Environmental impacts are a concern with heating systems, especially those that burn fossil fuels...
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via central heating. Such a system contains a boiler, furnace, or heat pump to heat water, steam, or air in a central location such as a furnace room...
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industrial furnace used to heat, melt, or otherwise process metals. Furnaces have been a central piece of equipment throughout the history of metallurgy; processing...
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Forced-air (redirect from Warm air central heating)
A forced-air central heating system is one which uses air as its heat transfer medium. These systems rely on ductwork, vents, and plenums as means of...
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recognized for her patent filed for a gas furnace, which served as the basis for the development of modern heating systems in use today. Alice H. Parker was...
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Underfloor heating and cooling is a form of central heating and cooling that achieves indoor climate control for thermal comfort using hydronic or electrical...
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Ground source heat pump (redirect from Geo-thermal heating)
for providing HVAC and water heating, using far less energy than can be achieved by burning a fuel in a boiler/furnace or by use of resistive electric...
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Boiler (redirect from Steam-generating furnace)
for use in various processes or heating applications,[page needed][page needed] including water heating, central heating, boiler-based power generation...
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Electric heating is a process in which electrical energy is converted directly to heat energy. Common applications include space heating, cooking, water...
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space heating. Denison Olmsted of New Haven, Connecticut, appears to have been the earliest person to use the term 'radiator' to mean a heating appliance...
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or cools to a setpoint temperature. Examples include building heating, central heating, air conditioners, HVAC systems, water heaters, as well as kitchen...
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biomass, but heat-only boiler stations, geothermal heating, heat pumps and central solar heating are also used, as well as heat waste from factories...
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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...
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furnace gas can also be used to heat the lower floors, where it is mixed with gas from the coal roaster. Every half-hour, the heating of the furnace battery...
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Hypocaust (category Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning)
A hypocaust (Latin: hypocaustum) is a system of central heating in a building that produces and circulates hot air below the floor of a room, and may...
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oil used for furnaces or boilers use for home heating and in other buildings. Home heating oil is often abbreviated as HHO. Most heating oil products...
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Forced-air gas (category Residential heating appliances)
starts and stops the furnace to regulate temperature. Large homes or commercial buildings may have multiple thermostats and heating zones, controlled by...
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Annual fuel utilization efficiency (category Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning)
'A'-'Few' or 'A'-'F'-'U'-'E') is a thermal efficiency measure of space-heating furnaces and boilers. The AFUE differs from the true 'thermal efficiency' in...
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heating systems, pellet heating systems demand the integration of a hot water tank in the heating system in order to reduce heat losses. The furnace is...
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Electric furnace may refer to: An electric furnace A central heating plant for a home or building An electric arc furnace used for steel making and smelting...
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Heater (disambiguation) (redirect from Heating (disambiguation))
to heat water for use in a heating system Furnace or heater, used to heat buildings using a central system Radiator (heating) or heater, used to transmit...
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and electric furnaces heat materials using resistive heating. Some ovens use forced convection, the movement of gases inside the heating chamber, to enhance...
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Coke (fuel) (section Industrial coke furnaces)
advent of central heating. In the US, the first use of coke in an iron furnace occurred around 1817 at Isaac Meason's Plumsock puddling furnace and rolling...
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Three-drum boiler (section Furnaces)
that flow through the water-tubes would be upwards, owing to their heating by the furnace, and that the counterbalancing downward flow would require external...
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Air preheater (redirect from Air-heating system)
heating the checkerwork inside, whilst the other is 'on blast', receiving cold air from the blowers, heating it and passing it to the blast furnace....
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Water heating is a heat transfer process that uses an energy source to heat water above its initial temperature. Typical domestic uses of hot water include...
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the heating of buildings and use in appliances. Typically gas is used to heat water, for showering, or central heating. In many countries, gas heating is...
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