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Pe-tro′le-um-fur′nace.

A steam-boiler furnace constructed for burning jets of petroleum, or a spray of petroleum mixed with a proportioned steam of air, sometimes accompanied by a steamjet.

In some cases the steam under pressure is made to lead in the petroleum and atmospheric air in the manner of the Giffard injector One in use in Paris has an oil-distributing device consisting of a pipe with branches, and of a grooved grate along which the oil flows after dropping from these tubes. A wrought-iron cistern contains the supply of petroleum, and is connected to the distributor by an india-rubber tube. The grate is placed vertically; the air, passing between its bars, supplies the oxygen for the combustion of the petroleum vaporized by the heat of the fire. The petroleum is supplied to the grate a little in excess of the requirements of the furnace, and the surplus drops into a receiver, and is volatilized by the heat of the furnace and the vapor consumed.

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