Aviation dictionary. 2014.
burner — A component of a jet engine combustion system. Its purpose is to introduce fuel into the combustion chamber in a state in which it will burn efficiently. The two types of burners are atomizer and vaporizer. A typical atomizer type burner … Aviation dictionary
duplex burner — An atomizer type of burner that has a primary and a main fuel manifold and two independent orifices one much smaller than the other. The smaller orifice handles the lower flows, and the larger one deals with higher flows as burner pressure… … Aviation dictionary
simplex burner — One of the earliest atomizer type of burners to be used, it is a high pressure fuel system of gas turbine engines. The fuel is forced through tangential holes in the atomizer into the swirl chamber before it sprays out of the orifice. The whole… … Aviation dictionary
Furnace — For other uses, see Furnace (disambiguation). Industrial Furnace from 1907 A furnace is a device used for heating. The name derives from Latin fornax, oven. In American English and Canadian English, the term furnace on its own is generally used… … Wikipedia
Nebulizer — In medicine, a nebulizer[1] (spelled nebuliser in British English)[2] is a device used to administer medication in the form of a mist inhaled into the lungs. A Jet nebulizer attached to a compressor. Nebuli … Wikipedia
Atomic absorption spectroscopy — In analytical chemistry, atomic absorption spectroscopy is a technique for determining the concentration of a particular metal element in a sample.cite book |author=Sperling, Michael B.; Welz, Bernhard |title=Atomic Absorption Spectrometry… … Wikipedia
Venturi effect — The Venturi effect is the fluid pressure that results when an incompressible fluid flows through a constricted section of pipe. The Venturi effect may be derived from a combination of Bernoulli s principle and the equation of continuity. The… … Wikipedia
