Furnace may refer to:

Appliances

Buildings

Furnace (central heating) A furnace (American English), referred to as a heater or boiler in British English, is an appliance used to generate heat for all or part of a building. Furnaces are mostly used as a major component of a Central heating, central heating system. ...

: a furnace, or a heater or boiler, used to generate heat for buildings *

Boiler A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated. The fluid does not necessarily boil. The heated or vaporized fluid exits the boiler for use in various processes or heating applications, including water heating, centra ...

, used to heat water; also called a furnace in American English when used for heating and hot water in a building * Jetstream furnace or Tempest boiler, a design of wood-fired water heater

Industry

Industrial furnace An industrial furnace is a device used to provide heat for an industrial process, typically operating at temperatures above 400 degrees Celsius. These furnaces generate heat by combusting fuel with air or oxygen, or through Electricity, electri ...

, a device used in industrial applications **

Glass melting furnace A glass melting furnace is designed to melt raw materials into glass. Depending on the intended use, there are various designs of glass melting furnaces available. They use different power sources. These sources are mainly fossil fueled or by f ...

Muffle furnace A muffle furnace or muffle oven (sometimes retort furnace in historical usage) is a furnace in which the subject material is isolated from the fuel and all of the products of combustion, including gases and flying ash. After the development of ...

or retort furnace **

Solar furnace A solar furnace is a structure that uses concentrated solar power to produce high temperatures, usually for industry. Parabolic mirrors or heliostats concentrate light ( Insolation) onto a focal point. The temperature at the focal point may ...

Vacuum furnace A vacuum furnace is a type of furnace in which the product in the furnace is surrounded by a vacuum during processing. The absence of air or other gases prevents oxidation, heat loss from the product through convection, and removes a source of c ...

Metallurgical furnace A metallurgical furnace, often simply referred to as a furnace when the context is known, is an industrial furnace used to heat, melt, or otherwise process metals. Furnaces have been a central piece of equipment throughout the history of metallurg ...

, a device used to heat metal and metal ore **

Basic oxygen furnace Basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS, BOP, BOF, or OSM), also known as Linz-Donawitz steelmaking or the oxygen converter process,Brock and Elzinga, p. 50. is a method of primary steelmaking in which carbon-rich molten pig iron is made into steel. Blowi ...

Bessemer converter The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. The key principle is removal of impurities and undesired elements, primar ...

Blast furnace A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper. ''Blast'' refers to the combustion air being supplied above atmospheric pressure. In a ...

Bloomery A bloomery is a type of metallurgical furnace once used widely for smelting iron from its iron oxides, oxides. The bloomery was the earliest form of smelter capable of smelting iron. Bloomeries produce a porous mass of iron and slag called ...

Electric arc furnace An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a Industrial furnace, furnace that heats material by means of an electric arc. Industrial arc furnaces range in size from small units of approximately one-tonne capacity (used in foundry, foundries for producin ...

Induction furnace An induction furnace is an electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal. Induction furnace capacities range from less than one kilogram to one hundred tons, and are used to melt iron and steel, copper, aluminu ...

Open hearth furnace An open-hearth furnace or open hearth furnace is any of several kinds of industrial Industrial furnace, furnace in which excess carbon and other impurities are burnt out of pig iron to Steelmaking, produce steel. Because steel is difficult to ma ...

Puddling furnace Puddling is the process of converting pig iron to bar (wrought) iron in a coal fired reverberatory furnace. It was developed in England during the 1780s. The molten pig iron was stirred in a reverberatory furnace, in an Redox, oxidizing enviro ...

Reverberatory furnace A reverberatory furnace is a metallurgy, metallurgical or process Metallurgical furnace, furnace that isolates the material being processed from contact with the fuel, but not from contact with combustion gases. The term ''reverberation'' is use ...

Places

United Kingdom

Furnace, Argyll Furnace () (formerly Inverleacainn ()) is a village in Argyll and Bute, on the west coast of Scotland, on the north shore of Loch Fyne, the longest sea loch in the United Kingdom. Furnace is around eight miles southwest of Inveraray on the A ...

, Scotland, a village * Furnace, Carmarthenshire, Wales, a village * Furnace, Ceredigion, Wales, a village

United States

Furnace, California Greenwater (formerly, Ramsey, The Camp, and Kunze) was an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community near Death Valley located in the eastern side of the Inyo County, California. It is now a deserted ghost town. Geography Greenwater is lo ...

, a former settlement *

Furnace, Indiana Furnace is an unincorporated community in Richland Township, Greene County, Indiana Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Mic ...

, a small town *

Furnace, Kentucky Furnace is an unincorporated community located in Estill County, Kentucky, United States. History Settlers found the surrounding area rich in iron ore. The Estill Steam Furnace, a blast furnace A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furn ...

, an unincorporated community *

Furnace, Virginia Furnace is an unincorporated community in Page County, in the U.S. state of Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States ...

, an unincorporated community *

Furnace, West Virginia Furnace was an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The ...

, a former unincorporated community *

Furnace Creek (disambiguation) Furnace Creek may refer to: Populated places * Furnace Creek, California in Inyo County Streams * Furnace Creek, Mono County, California * Furnace Creek, Madison County, Georgia * Furnace Creek, Walker County, Georgia * Furnace Creek, Lemhi Coun ...

, various streams

Arts, entertainment and media

Films

* ''Furnace'' (film), a 2006 horror film * ''The Furnace'' (1920 film), a film based on the novel ''The Furnace'' by "Pan" * ''The Furnace'' (2020 film), an Australian adventure drama film

Literature

* Furnace: Lockdown, series of books by author Alexander Gordon Smith * ''The Furnace'' (magazine), a literary magazine * ''The Furnace'', a 1907 novel by

Rose Macaulay Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, (1 August 1881 – 30 October 1958) was an English writer, most noted for her award-winning novel ''The Towers of Trebizond'', about a small Anglo-Catholic group crossing Turkey by camel. The story is seen as a spiri ...

* "The Furnace" (short story), by Stephen King

Music

* ''Furnace'' (album), by Download, 1995 * ''Furnace'', a 1972 album by

Keith Hudson Keith Hudson (18 March 1946 – 14 November 1984),Thompson, p.311 was a Jamaican reggae artist and record producer. He is known for his influence on the dub movement. Biography Raised in a musical family, Hudson attended Boys Town School i ...

* ''Furnaces'' (2016), album by

Ed Harcourt Edward Henry Richard Harcourt-Smith (born 14 August 1977) is an English singer-songwriter. To date, he has released ten studio albums, two EPs, and thirteen singles. His debut album, '' Here Be Monsters'', was nominated for the 2001 Mercury Pr ...

Other uses

* , four ships of the Royal Navy *

Walt Furnace Walter Ray Furnace (born December 31, 1943) is an American politician and businessman. Background Furnace was born in Ennis, Texas and graduated from the George Carter High School. He served in the United States Air Force. He settled in Anchorag ...

(born 1943), American businessman and politician