Furnace (disambiguation)
Encyclopedia
- FurnaceFurnaceA furnace is a device used for heating. The name derives from Latin fornax, oven.In American English and Canadian English, the term furnace on its own is generally used to describe household heating systems based on a central furnace , and sometimes as a synonym for kiln, a device used in the...
s as a general subject. - Furnaces used in smelters, including:
- Blast furnaceBlast furnaceA blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally iron.In a blast furnace, fuel and ore and flux are continuously supplied through the top of the furnace, while air is blown into the bottom of the chamber, so that the chemical reactions...
- SteelmakingSteelmakingSteelmaking is the second step in producing steel from iron ore. In this stage, impurities such as sulfur, phosphorus, and excess carbon are removed from the raw iron, and alloying elements such as manganese, nickel, chromium and vanadium are added to produce the exact steel required.-Older...
furnaces, including:- Puddling furnace
- Reverberatory furnaceReverberatory furnaceA 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...
- Bessemer converter
- Open hearth furnaceOpen hearth furnaceOpen hearth furnaces are one of a number of kinds of furnace where excess carbon and other impurities are burnt out of the pig iron to produce steel. Since steel is difficult to manufacture due to its high melting point, normal fuels and furnaces were insufficient and the open hearth furnace was...
- Basic oxygen furnace
- Electric arc furnaceElectric arc furnaceAn electric arc furnace is a furnace that heats charged material by means of an electric arc.Arc furnaces range in size from small units of approximately one ton capacity up to about 400 ton units used for secondary steelmaking...
- Electric induction furnace
- Furnaces used to remelt metal in foundriesFoundryA foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a liquid, pouring the metal in a mold, and removing the mold material or casting after the metal has solidified as it cools. The most common metals processed are aluminum and cast iron...
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- Furnaces used to reheat and heat treatHeat treatmentHeat treating is a group of industrial and metalworking processes used to alter the physical, and sometimes chemical, properties of a material. The most common application is metallurgical. Heat treatments are also used in the manufacture of many other materials, such as glass...
metal for use in:- Rolling mills, including tinplate works and slitting millSlitting millThe slitting mill was a watermill for slitting bars of iron into rods. The rods then were passed to nailers who made the rods into nails, by giving them a point and head....
s. - ForgeForgeA forge is a hearth used for forging. The term "forge" can also refer to the workplace of a smith or a blacksmith, although the term smithy is then more commonly used.The basic smithy contains a forge, also known as a hearth, for heating metals...
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- Rolling mills, including tinplate works and slitting mill
- Muffle furnaceMuffle furnaceA muffle furnace in historical usage is a furnace in which the subject material is isolated from the fuel and all of the products of combustion including gases and flying ash...
- Vacuum furnaceVacuum furnaceA 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....
Places
- Furnace, CeredigionFurnace, CeredigionFurnace is a in Ceredigion, Wales on the A487 trunk road from Machynlleth to Aberystwyth, near Eglwysfach.It is the location of the Dyfi Furnace, used from the 1750s to the 19th century to make pig iron with charcoal as fuel. The site was previously used the Silver Mills of the Society of Mines...
, village in Ceredigion, Wales - Furnace, Carmarthenshire, village in Carmarthenshire, Wales
- Furnace, CaliforniaFurnace, CaliforniaFurnace is a former settlement in Inyo County, California. It was located located north-northwest of Funeral Peak, in the Funeral Mountains....
, former settlement - Furnace, IndianaFurnace, IndianaFurnace is an unincorporated community in Richland Township, Greene County, Indiana....
, small town in the United States - Furnace, Argyll and Bute, village in Scotland
- Furnace Creek, CaliforniaFurnace Creek, CaliforniaFurnace Creek is a census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States. The population was 24 at the 2010 census, down from 31 at the 2000 census. The elevation of the village is below sea level....
, town in Death Valley, California. Lowest census point in the USA.
Other
- Furnace (film)Furnace (film)Furnace is a 2006 horror film written and directed by William Butler. It stars Danny Trejo, Michael Pare, Tom Sizemore, Ja Rule, and Paul Wall.-Premise:A group of prisoners are assigned to assist in the re-opening of an old prison's closed wing...
, 2006 Horror film - Furnace (album)Furnace (album)-Personnel:*Dwayne Goettel*Philth*Mark Spybey*cEvin Key*Genesis P. Orridge...
, Album by the industrial music group DownloadDownload (band)Download is an electronic music group formed by Dwayne Goettel and cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy in 1994. The initial lineup also included Off & Gone's Phil Western and Mark Spybey of Dead Voices on Air, but has since been particularly fluid, with Key and Western being the only constant members... - Furnace: LockdownFurnace: LockdownFurnace is a series of books written by author Alexander Gordon Smith. The books are written from the point of view of teenage protagonist Alex Sawyer, and are about his containment in the prison known as Furnace...
, series of books by author Alexander Gordon SmithAlexander Gordon SmithAlexander Gordon Smith is an author of books, mainly for children and young adults.Between 2000 and 2003 he studied English literature at the University of East Anglia, where he set up a small poetry press called Egg Box Publishing...
See also
- BoilerBoilerA boiler is a closed vessel in which water or other fluid is heated. The heated or vaporized fluid exits the boiler for use in various processes or heating applications.-Materials:...
- Jetstream furnaceJetstream furnaceJetstream furnaces , were an advanced design of wood-fired water heaters conceived by Dr. Richard Hill of the University of Maine in Orono, Maine, USA...
- Fire test furnacesFire testA fire test is a means of determining whether or not fire protection products meet minimum performance criteria as set out in a building code or other applicable legislation. Successful tests in laboratories holding national accreditation for testing and certification result in the issuance of a...