Most noncondensing residential furnaces use natural draft to drive the combustion process. Even 80%-AFUE furnaces with combustion blowers are natural-draft furnaces. The combustion blower in an 80% ...

Bob is a service technician who is well trained and nationally certified. However, he sometimes suffers from the same confusion that all technicians occasionally do - the facts that he gathers may or ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook While energy costs continue to soar domestically and abroad, mechanical engineering Prof. Arvind ...

Plant operators have used combustion flue gas analysis for decades as a method of optimizing boiler combustion fuel/air ratios. By measuring the amount of excess oxygen and/or carbon monoxide (CO) in ...

Zonal combustion monitoring systems provide a way to improve burner fuel and/or airflow control. Such systems combine online combustibles (COeq) and excess oxygen (O 2) sensors with information about ...

Combustion in boilers and furnaces remains a pivotal area of research, central to optimising energy efficiency and minimising pollutant emissions in industrial and power generation applications.