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Furnace
A furnace is a structure in which heat is produced with the help of combustion. Furnace may also refer to: Appliances Buildings * Furnace (central heating): a furnace , or a heater or boiler , used to generate heat for buildings * Boiler, used to heat water; also called a furnace in American English when used for heating and hot water in a building * Jetstream furnace or Tempest boiler, a design of wood-fired water heater Industry * Industrial furnace, a device used in industrial applications ** Glass melting furnace ** Muffle furnace or retort furnace ** Solar furnace ** Vacuum furnace * Metallurgical furnace, a device used to heat metal and metal ore ** Basic oxygen furnace ** Bessemer converter ** Blast furnace ** Bloomery ** Electric arc furnace ** Electric induction furnace ** Open hearth furnace ** Puddling furnace ** Reverberatory furnace Places United Kingdom * Furnace, Argyll, a village in Scotland * Furnace, Carmarthenshire, a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furnace Creek, California
Furnace Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California, United States. The population was 136 at the 2020 census, up from 24 at the 2010 census. The elevation of the village is below sea level. Furnace Creek holds the record for the highest recorded air temperature on Earth at 134 °F (56.7 °C) on July 10, 1913. Furnace Creek also holds the record for the highest recorded natural ground surface temperature on Earth at 201 °F (93.9 °C) on July 15, 1972, and also holds some other temperature records. The visitor center, museum, and headquarters of the Death Valley National Park are located at Furnace Creek. Geography and climate According to the United States Census Bureau, Furnace Creek has a total area of , over 99% of it being land. Springs in the Amargosa Range created a natural oasis at Furnace Creek, which has subsequently dwindled due to diversion of this water to support the village. Summers are extraordinarily ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. ''Blast'' refers to the combustion air being "forced" or supplied above atmospheric pressure. In a blast furnace, fuel ( coke), ores, and flux ( limestone) are continuously supplied through the top of the furnace, while a hot blast of air (sometimes with oxygen enrichment) is blown into the lower section of the furnace through a series of pipes called tuyeres, so that the chemical reactions take place throughout the furnace as the material falls downward. The end products are usually molten metal and slag phases tapped from the bottom, and waste gases ( flue gas) exiting from the top of the furnace. The downward flow of the ore along with the flux in contact with an upflow of hot, carbon monoxide-rich combustion gases is a countercurrent exchange and chemical reaction process. In contrast, air furnaces (such as reve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furnace, Argyll
Furnace ( gd, An Fhùirneis) (formerly Inverleacainn ( gd, Inbhir Leacainn)) is a village in Argyll and Bute, on the west coast of Scotland, on the north shore of Loch Fyne, the longest sea loch in the United Kingdom. Furnace is around eight miles southwest of Inveraray on the A83 road. It is unusual for a West Highland village in having an industrial past in addition to the usual focus on agriculture and fishing. Industrial activity was led by three main businesses: the iron furnace, the powdermills and the quarry. Ironworks The ironworks were founded in 1755 by the Duddon Company of Cumbria, drawn by the local forest capable of supplying the charcoal needed in smelting iron. The village, then called Inverleacainn (the mouth of the River Leacainn) gradually took on the shorthand name of ‘the furnace’ and finally, simply ‘Furnace’. The furnace itself shut down in 1812, upon the expiry of a 57-year lease from the Duke of Argyll. The Duddon Company was bought by Harrison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Furnace (2020 Film)
''The Furnace'' is a 2020 Australian adventure drama film written and directed by Roderick MacKay. Set in the Western Australian outback during the goldrushes of the 1890s, the film's characters include "Afghan" cameleers, a white gold thief, and local Aboriginal people. It was nominated for several AACTA Awards. Cast Synopsis The film is set during the Western Australian gold rushes of the 1890s, and its characters represent some of the "Afghan" cameleers (who actually came from India, Persia, and other parts of the Middle East, and belonged to Islamic, Sikh and Hindu faiths) who brought their camel trains to help open up the Australian outback from the mid-19th century. Two young Afghan cameleers, Hanif and Jundah, form a friendship with an Aboriginal hunter, Woorak. Hanif is trying to find an illegal furnace so that he can melt two bars of stolen gold, which he acquired by chance after coming across the sole survivor of a group massacre, Mal. The two men have to comprom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furnace (film)
''Furnace'' is a 2007 horror film written and directed by William Butler. It stars Danny Trejo, Michael Paré, Tom Sizemore, Ja Rule, and Paul Wall. Plot A group of prisoners are assigned to assist in the re-opening of an old prison's closed wing. They find that the furnace room in the wing is the location of a murder, and the victim's spirit seeks death of those who enter the room. Cast * Michael Paré as Detective Michael Turner * Ja Rule as Terrence Dufresne * Jenny McShane as Dr. Ashley Carter * Danny Trejo as Fury * Tom Sizemore as Frank Miller * Kelly Stables as Karen Bolding * Paul Wall as Joey Robbins Production The original script for ''Furnace'' was written by Anghus Houvouras, and the project was brought up to director William Butler, who thought that the story was reminiscent of the 1988 film ''Prison A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, standard English, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furnace, California
Greenwater (formerly, Ramsey, The Camp, and Kunze) was an unincorporated community near Death Valley located in the eastern side of the Inyo County, California. It is now a deserted ghost town. Geography Greenwater is located north of Funeral Peak in the Funeral Mountains above southeastern Death Valley, at an elevation of 4288 feet (1307 m). It is now located within Death Valley National Park, north of Smith Mountain, and south of the Rand, California mining district ruins. History Greenwater was a mining town in the Mojave Desert that saw its rise and fall within the first decade of the 20th century. Greenwater's first records date back to the year 1904, these records stated that there were claims that Greenwater dated back to the 1880s however no solid evidence or records were found. The original townsite, "Kunze", named after its founder Arthur Kunze was located west of the current site. Kunze was abandoned in favor of the current site, which had the original name o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Furnace (1920 Film)
''The Furnace'' is a lost 1920 American silent drama film directed by William Desmond Taylor, written by Julia Crawford Ivers based upon the 1920 novel of the same name by Leslie Beresford.''Who's who in Literature'', page 333 Mark Meredith - 1933 PAN (Leslie Beresford). ... Big Happiness, 1917 ; Dolly and Her Diary, 1917 ; The Kingdom of Content, 1918 (all Mills & Boon) ; Glory of Love, 1919 ; The Furnace, 1920; Love's Side Street, ... It was distributed by Realart Pictures. Cast *Agnes Ayres as Folly Vallance * Jerome Patrick as Anthony Bond *Theodore Roberts as General Archibald Foulkes-Brent * Betty Francisco as Patricia Brent *Milton Sills as Keene Mordaunt * Helen Dunbar as Lady Foulkes-Brent * F. A. Turner as Albert Vallance (credited as Fred Turner) *Mayme Kelso as Mrs. Vallance *Lucien Littlefield as Bert Vallance *Robert Bolder as Solomon Bassbridge *Edward Martindel Edward Martindel (July 8, 1876 – May 4, 1955) was an American stage and film actor who app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furnace (central Heating)
A furnace (American English), referred to as a heater or boiler in British English, is an appliance used to generate 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 heat to an interior space through intermediary fluid movement, which may be air, steam, or hot water. Heating appliances that use steam or hot water as the fluid are normally referred to as a residential steam boilers or residential hot water boilers. The most common fuel source for modern furnaces in North America and much of Europe is natural gas; other common fuel sources include LPG (liquefied petroleum gas), fuel oil, wood and in rare cases coal. In some areas electrical resistance heating is used, especially where the cost of electricity is low or the primary purpose is for air conditioning. Modern high-efficiency furnaces can be up to 98% efficient and operate without a chimney, with a typical gas fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glass Melting Furnace
A glass melting furnace is designed to melt raw materials into glass. Depending on the intended use, there are various designs of glass melting furnaces available. They use different power sources. These sources are mainly fossil fueled or by fully electric power. A combination of both energy sources is also realized. A glass melting furnace is made from a refractory material. Basics The glass raw materials are fed to the glass melting tank in batches or continuously. The components (the batch) are melted to form a liquid glass melt. In addition to the basic components, the batch also contains cullet from recycled glass to save energy. The cullet content can be up to approx. 85% - 90% (green glass), depending on the requirements of the desired glass color. When changing the glass color (recoloring), the entire process often takes several days in large glass melting furnaces. For economical operation, the glass melting furnaces are operated around the clock throughout the year f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Arc Furnace
An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats material by means of an electric arc. Industrial arc furnaces range in size from small units of approximately one-tonne capacity (used in foundries for producing cast iron products) up to about 400-tonne units used for secondary steelmaking. Arc furnaces used in research laboratories and by dentists may have a capacity of only a few dozen grams. Industrial electric arc furnace temperatures can reach , while laboratory units can exceed . In electric arc furnaces, the charged material (the material entered into the furnace for heating, not to be confused with electric charge) is directly exposed to an electric arc, and the current from the furnace terminals passes through the charged material. Arc furnaces differ from induction furnaces, in which the charge is heated instead by eddy currents. History In the 19th century, a number of people had employed an electric arc to melt iron. Sir Humphry Davy conducted an exper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furnace, Kentucky
Furnace is an unincorporated community located in Estill County, Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia ..., United States. History Settlers found the surrounding area rich in iron ore. The Estill Steam Furnace, a blast furnace was established in about 1830. A post office was established in the community in 1857, and named for the Estill Steam Furnace. This was shortened to Furnace in 1882. The post office was discontinued in 1975. References External links * Unincorporated communities in Estill County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky 1857 establishments in Kentucky {{EstillCountyKY-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Industrial Furnace
An industrial furnace, also known as a direct heater or a direct fired heater, is a device used to provide heat for an industrial process, typically higher than 400 degrees Celsius. They are used to provide heat for a process or can serve as reactor which provides heats of reaction. Furnace designs vary as to its function, heating duty, type of fuel and method of introducing combustion air. Heat is generated by an industrial furnace by mixing fuel with air or oxygen, or from electrical energy. The residual heat will exit the furnace as flue gas. These are designed as per international codes and standards the most common of which are ISO 13705 (Petroleum and natural gas industries — Fired heaters for general refinery service) / American Petroleum Institute (API) Standard 560 (Fired Heater for General Refinery Service). Types of industrial furnaces include batch ovens, vacuum furnaces, and solar furnaces. Industrial furnaces are used in applications such as chemical reactions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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