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Flame supervision: thermocouples and flame rectification

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How the device that shuts the gas off when a flame goes out actually senses the flame.

A flame supervision device, sometimes called a flame failure device, is a burner safety control that cuts off gas after flame loss. It limits a continuing unburnt-gas release, although a response interval is possible. CENWAT expects you to know, in principle, how the two common types sense the flame.

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