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Tech/Engineering - Engineering (general) | | French term or phrase: chaufferie bois | The context is renewable energy sources.
included in a list of RE sources
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| | wood-fired central heating/ heating system/boiler | Explanation:
une chaufferie used to be a boiler, now it can be used to describe a heating system or a central heating as mainy boiler are big enough to heat up many rooms.
Very often in French, we do not precise à bois but just bois. |
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Roseanne
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8 mins wood-fired central heating/ heating system/boiler
Explanation:
une chaufferie used to be a boiler, now it can be used to describe a heating system or a central heating as mainy boiler are big enough to heat up many rooms.
Very often in French, we do not precise à bois but just bois.
heating appliances are part of my experience
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Best,
Roseanne
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13 mins one more piece of information
Explanation:
if your chaufferie refers to a home heating system it may also provide the user with a traditional oven, in that case the choice should go to a boiler or an AGA. Do you have AGA boilers in America, in Europe that is often the term used instead of a boiler in spoken English as it is the most expensive thought-after trademark.
I could check what it is in America if boiler on its own is not enough for you.
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47 mins wood-burning heating systems / wood-fired heating plant / wood-fired boilers
Explanation:
Hello !
Chaufferie is either a boiler room or a heating plant. C'est selon.
Here's what I found in connection with wood :
Local Sustainability Case Study #15
... resources and the conservation of energy. Aside from constructing a municipal wood-fired heating plant, an advertising campaign for the building of private and ...
www.iclei.org/egpis/egpc-015.html - 10k - Archivé en mémoire - Pages similaires
Why Wood Heating?
... designed, modern wood burning heating systems provide cost effective ... dioxide (CO2) emitted when wood fuels are converted to ... by a growing plant; wood as a fuel ...
www.britishbiogen.co.uk/bioenergy/heating/whywoodheat.htm
Termium says the following about chaufferies :
2. Domaine(s)
– Ovens, Furnaces and Boilers (Heating)
– Ship and Boat Parts
boiler room CORRECT
boiler house UNIFORMISÉ
chaufferie CORRECT, FÉM, UNIFORMISÉ
DEF – A room where steam or hot-water boilers and similar equipment are located. Source
OBS – boiler house: term officially approved by CP Rail.
DEF – Local renfermant les appareils de production de chaleur, dans un bâtiment, dans une usine, à bord d'un navire, etc.
Or in combination with other words :
1. Domaine(s)
– Heating
furnace room CORRECT
chaufferie d'immeuble CORRECT, FÉM
DEF – Room primarily used for the installation of heating equipment.
EX – Safety for boiler and furnace rooms.
EX – Boiler-and furnace-room lighting.
OBS – Furnace: ... not to be confused with a boiler. Source OBS – chaufferie : Local renfermant les appareils de production de chaleur, dans un bâtiment, dans une usine, à bord d'un navire, etc
1. Domaine(s)
– Ovens, Furnaces and Boilers (Heating)
penthouse heating plant
chaufferie en terrasse CORRECT, FÉM
DEF – Système de chauffage consistant à établir des batteries de chaudières au sommet des immeubles.
Finally, I thought of simply saying "food-fired boilers", and I found proof that this term exists :
HVAC-Talk: For Contractors, Home-Owners and DIY - wood fired ...
... Author, ... i am looking at hooking one up in conjunction with my heat pump for backup heat. i have found several when i searched for wood fired boilers. ...
hvac-talk.com/vbb/showthread.php?threadid=2356 - 32k
Wood fired Eckrohr-Boilers. Wood fired boiler with water cooled inclined grate, 81 kB, Wood has ...
www.eckrohrkessel.com/boiler/holz.htm
And :
MESCOLI BOILERS and WOOD-FIRED DOMESTIC HEATERS
... Mescoli Caldaie can boast more than 40 years' experience in the steel boilers sector. It is a specialist in the technology of wood-fired domestic heating. ...
www.mescolicaldaie.it/eng/def.html
I hope that I gave you enough choice to find the right term that best suits your context.
Best regards,
Connie
Reference: http://www.termium.com
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6 hrs firewood
Explanation:
The answer here is as simple as possible: they mean the wood which is used for burning in whatever heating systems (either with or without boilers, stoves, ovens furnaces,etc.).
This wood is used purely for extraction of heat energy; it is renewavble since after cleaning a piece of woodland you can expect that some years after you will get again that part of woodland renewed either in artificial (and this is quicker) or natural way.
I spent some years lecturing in Africa and saw by my own eyes how strongly the population there depends namely on that source of energy: they used to apply charcoal for PREPARATION OF FOOD and for the majority of people inhabiting the country there was no any alternative (electricity, gas, domestic kerosine, etc.) for many people. Gracias a Deus, in my apartments we had electric supply, but some African neighbors used charcoal for preparation of food, heating water. etc.
With best regards,
Dr. Tagir S. Tagirov
KSU
(Ex-Director of the Faculty of Mathematics at UEM, RM:-)
Lingvo + Britannica + Merriam Webster
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