Let us first answer the question, what is a furnace? A furnace is a device that generates heat, for example a heater.
Furnaces can be used to heat up homes or to burn materials like molding.
Different types of Furnaces Home Furnace Most home in the USA have them to keep us warm during the winter months they are used to heat our homes and other things like hot water.
They have several different fuels available, such as coal, wood, electric, oil and gas.
The common types of home furnaces are condensation and combustion, Condensation furnaces get the heat from recycling from the exhaust gases and the second one combustion will require you too have an exhaust and will use the burning of fuels to create heat.
Furnaces will have different heat distribution methods, some will use steam or water to move around the heat where as others will suck in cold air and heat it up before moving the hot air around the room or home.
Metallurgical Furnace This type of furnaces will use heat for industrial use such as reducing iron ore to pig iron, smelting, remelting and moulding metal.
Each type of job they are used for require high temperatures and calls for a special type of furnace.
Industrial Furnace This type of furnace is used for providing heat for a production process or heat for a reactor.
These industrial furnaces are custom designed for its purpose and will come with custom heating manner, type of fuel etc.
They also have some common parts and fuel is fed into a burner and air is blown in to create the intense heat that is required.
Incinerating Furnaces Incinerating furnaces, or incinerators as they are more commonly known are used for the burning of waste etc.
They could be classed as industrial furnaces but they do not aid in the production process, the manner of design and type of fuels are much like the industrial furnaces.