The designer believes that by this combination of a combustion-chamber with the underfiring grate the combustion of the fuel is improved.
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Underfiring
//ˌʌndəːˈfaɪəɹɪŋ//
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Underfiring of steam boilers, though not approved in this country, is very largely practised in America, […]
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The lowered demand for coke during the depression, the necessity of maintaining the gas output and the ready availability of liquefied petroleum gas for underfiring led to the conversion of the North Shore coke plant of Becker ovens at Waukegan, Illinois, to this fuel. […] The thermal efficiency of the underfiring was about five per cent lower and somewhat more attention was required to keep the ovens in balance.
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One of the major factors contributing to high particulate emissions from domestic burners is on-off cycling. […] Modulation and underfiring have been suggested as methods of reducing the significance of the startup transient. […] Underfiring consists of using a smaller (undersized) unit which has to stay on longer and, therefore, cycles less.
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