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Flame supervision: thermocouples and flame rectification

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 the safety feature that stops gas pouring out when there is no flame to burn it. CENWAT expects you to know, in principle, how the two common types sense the flame.

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