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  2. Fitchburg Furnace - Wikipedia

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    The furnace is the world's largest charcoal iron furnace and the last to be built in Kentucky. The structure was state of the art in its time. With core of the furnace consisted of twin stacks built of local sandstone using traditional dry laid stone masonry, and today is counted among the top dry masonry projects in the world.

  3. Far Lands or Bust - Wikipedia

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    The show also holds the Guinness World Record for the longest journey in Minecraft. [3] [4] Episodes of Far Lands or Bust typically act as a sort of podcast, with the game providing a backing track while Kurt discusses recent events in his life, news and science. The show also encourages viewers to donate to charity to reach fundraising goals. [4]

  4. Eternal flame - Wikipedia

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    Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin eternal flame memorializing losses during World War II .. An eternal flame is a flame, lamp or torch that burns for an indefinite time. Most eternal flames are ignited and tended intentionally, but some are natural phenomena caused by natural gas leaks, peat fires and coal seam fires, all of which can be initially ignited by lightning, piezoelectricity or human activity ...

  5. List of preserved historic blast furnaces - Wikipedia

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    The furnaces are preserved in a park or museum, or as a site otherwise open to visitors, or intended to become such. While pre-20th-century blast furnaces already have a long history of monument preservation, the perception of 20th century mass production blast furnace installations as industrial heritage is a comparably new trend. For a long ...

  6. List of ovens - Wikipedia

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    A modern double oven. This is a list of oven types.An oven is a thermally insulated chamber used for the heating, baking or drying of a substance, [1] and most times used for cooking or for industrial processes (industrial oven).

  7. Blast furnace - Wikipedia

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    Modern furnaces are highly efficient, including Cowper stoves to pre-heat the blast air and employ recovery systems to extract the heat from the hot gases exiting the furnace. Competition in industry drives higher production rates. The largest blast furnace in the world is in South Korea, with a volume around 6,000 m 3 (210,000 cu ft). It can ...

  8. Annual fuel utilization efficiency - Wikipedia

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    The annual fuel utilization efficiency (AFUE; pronounced 'A'-'Few' or 'A'-'F'-'U'-'E') is a thermal efficiency measure of space-heating furnaces and boilers.The AFUE differs from the true 'thermal efficiency' in that it is not a steady-state, peak measure of conversion efficiency, but instead attempts to represent the actual, season-long, average efficiency of that piece of equipment ...

  9. Carrie Furnace - Wikipedia

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    Carrie Furnace is a former blast furnace located along the Monongahela River in the Pittsburgh area industrial town of Swissvale, Pennsylvania, and it had formed a part of the Homestead Steel Works. The Carrie Furnaces were built in 1884 and they operated until 1982. During its peak, the site produced 1,000 to 1,250 tons of iron per day. [3]