English to French translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Engineering (general) / chaudière à vapeur | | English term or phrase: bottom header | | To drain the boiler open all the drain valves on bottom headers and blow down valves on steam drum. |
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| | collecteur inférieur | Explanation:
A header is usually a collecteur
Bottom can often be translated as inférieur (particularly if elsewhere your text also mentions an upper header)
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Note added at 16 mins (2010-10-24 08:56:04 GMT)
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I meant to add that I am not a specialist in this field, so I can't tell you if there is a more specific term used that would cause one to depart from this otherwise liiteral, dictionary translation. |
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Tony M
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14 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +2 collecteur inférieur
Explanation:
A header is usually a collecteur
Bottom can often be translated as inférieur (particularly if elsewhere your text also mentions an upper header)
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Note added at 16 mins (2010-10-24 08:56:04 GMT)
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I meant to add that I am not a specialist in this field, so I can't tell you if there is a more specific term used that would cause one to depart from this otherwise liiteral, dictionary translation.
| Tony M
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| Reference: bottom header / collecteur
Reference information:
"The Miura boiler design consists of straight water tubes between upper and lower headers. Both headers are encased in a castable refractory leaving only the tubes exposed to combustion gases. There is very little water and consequently very little energy stored in the steam boiler. Water volume is exclusively in the tubes with only incidental bubbling in the upper header. Therefore, the design has no natural circulation such as a riser, down comer effect common to natural circulation boilers.
La chaudière Miura comporte des tubes d’eau droits entre les collecteurs supérieur et inférieur. Les deux collecteurs sont enterrés dans un matériau réfractaire coulé, ce
qui fait que seuls les tubes sont exposés aux gaz de combustion. Le volume d’eau étant très faible, très peu d’énergie est emmagasinée dans la chaudière à vapeur. Le volume d’eau est essentiellement contenu dans les tubes, un barbotage accessoire ayant lieu dans le collecteur supérieur. Ainsi, la chaudière n’est pas conçue pour comporter de circulation naturelle et il n’y a donc pas de colonne montante ni de conduit d’eau de circulation, que comportent les chaudières à circulation naturelle."
http://www.english-for-techies.net/.../z-LX-Bilingual.pdf
| FX Fraipont
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