French: atelier d’énergieEnglish translation: power supply unit 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | atelier d’énergie | | English translation: | power supply unit | | Entered by: | Irene S. |
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Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation | | French term or phrase: atelier d’énergie | | Attention, le + 48 V des ateliers d’énergie est relié à la terre. L’utilisation des ateliers d’énergie est interdite pour alimentation des matériels non réservés à cet usage. |
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 Catherine Johnstone
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Explanation:
a translation of "power train". Both "atelier" and "train" can be used for a series of equipment items which, together, fulfil a certain function. Thus you might have a turbine, generator, and transformers constituting your "atelier".
In road building, for ex., an "atelier de pavage" would be the trucks ferrying asphalt to the storage bin, the screw conveyors taking asphalt to the paving machine, the paving machine itself, and the rollers following on behind.
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Note added at 16 hrs 8 mins (2004-11-21 16:08:27 GMT)
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Though \"power train\" in English usually refers to mechanical transmission of force, it can also be used in the electrical sense:
The power train module of the test bench consists of 100 kW generator as a load for the electrical engine, power converter, DC-DC-converter, battery, battery ...
www.dlr.de/fk/Publikationen/UECT_2004.pdf
generator, four units of MHI HRSG, and two units of MHI steam turbine generator. ... One combined-cycled power train will be connected to a 154kV breaker and the ...
www.power-technology.com/projects/bursa/
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