Chimney
A chimney is a structure used to ventilate hot flue gases or smoke from a boiler, stove, furnace or fireplace to the outside atmosphere. Most chimneys are vertical, or almost vertical, to make sure that the gases flow easily, drawing air into the combustion in what is known as the stack, or chimney, effect. The space inside a chimney is called a flue. Chimneys may be found in buildings, steam locomotives and ships. In the United States, the term smokestack is also used when talking about locomotive chimneys or ship chimneys, the word funnel can be used too.[1][2]
The Height of a chimney is really important, when higher, chimney's dispersion of pollutants will not cause too much influence on surrounding areas. Tall chimneys also allow chemicals to self-neutralize in the air before they reach the ground.
Chimney Media
A vertical chimney erected on the mechanical penthouse of a residential high rise in Ontario for ejecting combustion products from the building's water boiler
Smokestacks in Manchester, England, c. 1858
A chimney by the old fire station near Culture Center Vernissa in Tikkurila, Finland
A chimney remaining after the destruction of a 19th-century two-story house in Mount Solon, Virginia
A smoke hood in the Netherlands
Chimney pots in London, seen from the tower of Westminster Cathedral
A seagull sits on top of a hot gas cooling chimney at The World of Glass in St. Helens in the United Kingdom
A section of a large late Georgian four-storey house showing the advantage of using a mechanical sweeper over climbing boys
Carved brick chimneys characteristic of late Gothic Tudor buildings, at Thornbury Castle in 1514
References
- ↑ C.F. Saunders (1923), The Southern Sierras of California
- ↑ "Jules Verne (1872), Around the World in Eighty Days". Archived from the original on 2014-03-02. Retrieved 2011-06-06.