Oil furnace
[ Home ] [ Up ]

Oil Furnace

The most common type of oil burner is the gun type.  The gun type burner forces oil under pressure through an orifice of a controlled size. The oil is broken into finely divided particles (antomized).  It is mixed with air and forced into the combustion chamber by a blower.  The unit has an air-injection combustion head with radial air-injection hole in the nozzle.

To burn, oil must first be vaporized.  To vaporize oil, heat must be added.  The oil turns into a gas more quickly and easily if it is sprayed.  This spraying is called antomizing.  Gun-type oil burners atomize oil by forcing it into a twisting, spiraling, turbulent air stream.  A small electric spark turns a few of the antomizied particles into gas so the burning will start.

For more information on oil furnaces click here.