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regenerative furnaces

regenerative furnaces is the plural of regenerative furnace.

Meaning of regenerative furnace

Noun

regenerative furnace (plural regenerative furnaces)

  1. A furnace having a regenerator in which gas used for fuel, and air for supporting combustion, are heated; a Siemens furnace.
    • These are modifications of the Siemens regenerative furnace, but differ from it in having the gas generator directly alongside of the melting chamber instead of at a distance. The coal is burned on the ordinary step-grate to carbon-monoxide gas which passes while still hot directly to the...1893 March, Charles Hanford Henderson, “The Development of American Industries Since Columbus: The Glass Industry II”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 42

Questions about regenerative furnaces

What is regenerative furnaces the plural of?
Regenerative furnaces is the plural of regenerative furnace.

Words near regenerative furnaces in the dictionary

  1. regenerations
  2. regenerative
  3. regenerative braking
  4. regenerative feedback
  5. regenerative furnace
  6. regenerative furnaces
  7. regenerative medicine
  8. regenerative medicines
  9. regenerative thermal oxidizer
  10. regenerative thermal oxidizers
  11. regeneratively

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