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What is a combustor?

What is a combustor? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A chamber acting as the furnace in a jet engine or turbine engine, where intense combustion is induced.
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If you see smoke, check with your wood heat dealer or chimney sweep on further advice on when to replace the combustor.
Cleaning the combustor once a year, preferably when your flue system is serviced, is sufficient for most users.
During supersonic flight, the fan may be feathered, and a surplus of fuel may be introduced into the core combustor.
In the energy recovery unit, up to 600 tonnes a day of refuse will be directed to a three-stream fluidized bed combustor.
The combustor is a conventional one, with a reverse-flow design.
A new concept with an indirectly heated calciner is presented, where the heat for calcination is transferred by means of heat pipes from an external combustor.

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