A convection heater, also known as a convector heater, is a type of heater that utilizes convection currents to heat and circulate air. These currents...
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Electric heating (redirect from Electric Heater)
compared to radiant electric heaters. A fan heater, also called a forced convection heater, is a kind of convection heater that includes an electric fan...
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An oil heater, also known as an oil-filled heater, oil-filled radiator, or column heater, is a common form of convection heater used in domestic heating...
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Typically heaters are designed with either convection or radiation as the sole dominant mode. Convective space heaters utilize convection to transfer...
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Convection (or convective heat transfer) is the transfer of heat from one place to another due to the movement of fluid. Although often discussed as a...
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Radiator (heating) (redirect from Radiative heater)
devices tend to transfer heat mainly by convection and might logically be called convectors. The terms convection heater and convector refer to a class of devices...
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convection. Today the same principle applies with outdoor patio heaters or "mushroom heaters" which act as giant Bunsen burners. Modern gas heaters have...
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An infrared heater or heat lamp is a heating appliance containing a high-temperature emitter that transfers energy to a cooler object through electromagnetic...
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A kerosene heater, also known as a paraffin heater, is typically a portable, unvented, kerosene-fueled, space (i.e., convectional) heating device. In Japan...
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of hot air forced to pass from the heater surface and over the food, with no idle air circulating as in a convection oven. A shaped guide directed the...
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Heat transfer (section Convection)
classified into various mechanisms, such as thermal conduction, thermal convection, thermal radiation, and transfer of energy by phase changes. Engineers...
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Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (redirect from Heater)
transferred by convection, conduction, or radiation. Space heaters are used to heat single rooms and only consist of a single unit. Heaters exist for various...
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the cause of the convection is unspecified, convection due to the effects of thermal expansion and buoyancy can be assumed. Convection may also take place...
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Forced convection is a mechanism, or type of transport, in which fluid motion is generated by an external source (like a pump, fan, suction device, etc...
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Central heating (redirect from Central heater)
provided by baseboard heaters, space heaters, radiant heaters, furnaces, wall heaters, or thermal storage systems. Electric heaters are usually part of...
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A ceramic heater as a consumer product is a space heater that generates heat using a heating element of ceramic with a positive temperature coefficient...
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Air conditioning (redirect from Air heater)
tandem with a more conventional form of heating, such as an electrical heater, a natural gas, heating oil, or wood-burning fireplace or central heating...
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A salamander heater is any of a variety of portable forced-air or convection space heaters, often using kerosene or propane as fuel but also requiring...
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Heat pump (redirect from Heat pump water heater)
is compressed so its pressure and temperature rise. When operating as a heater in cold weather, the warmed gas flows to a heat exchanger in the indoor...
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a chimney for conveying exhaust gases from a fireplace, furnace, water heater, boiler, or generator to the outdoors. Historically the term flue meant...
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use of the bi-metallic thermostat today is in individual electric convection heaters, where control is on/off, based on the local air temperature and the...
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Air door (section Comparison to overdoor heaters)
Airflow through a door depends on wind forces, temperature differences (convection), and pressure differences. Air doors work best when the pressure differential...
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Reflow oven (section Infrared and convection ovens)
normally ceramic infrared heaters above and below the conveyor, which transfer heat to the PCBs by means of radiation. Convection ovens heat air in chambers...
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Radiant heating and cooling (redirect from Radiant heater)
(mostly convection heating). An example is the Austrian/German cocklestove (Kachelofen), a type of masonry heater. Mixed radiation, convection and conduction...
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Thermosiphon (category Convection)
thermosyphon) is a method of passive heat exchange, based on natural convection, which circulates a fluid without the necessity of a mechanical pump....
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2023-09-20. "Convection Heaters vs. Fan-Forced Heaters – Which is right for you?". Dimplex. Retrieved 2023-09-20. Ruth Emery (2023-01-25). "Fan heater vs oil...
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small cells, which cannot effectively transfer heat by natural convection. Convection involves a larger bulk flow of gas driven by buoyancy and temperature...
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