Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Windform

English translation:

(air) blast tuyere

Added to glossary by Trudy Peters
Jun 16, 2005 18:49
19 yrs ago
German term

Windform

German to English Tech/Engineering Engineering: Industrial Blast furnace
Photo caption:

Pumpstation Primärkreislauf: Windformenkühlung in den Nennweiten 500 und 530
Proposed translations (English)
3 air blast tuyere

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air blast tuyere

Windform = air blast tuyere (FWB Chemie und chemische Technik (ISBN 3-86117-035-3)

Windform (blast furnace) = Ofenform; mouth or opening or orifice of the tuyere, blast tuyere (Ernst, W. der industriellen Technik (3-87097-145-2)

These are of course dictionary definitions, Trudy. HTH a little anyway.

Tom


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Note added at 36 mins (2005-06-16 19:26:00 GMT)
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Tuyere = an opening in the shell and refractory lining of a furnace through which air is forced (McGraw-Hill, D. of Scheintific and Technical Terms, ISBN 0-07-0455270-9)

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Note added at 41 mins (2005-06-16 19:30:48 GMT)
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Tuyère = The opening through which the blast of air enters a blast furnace, cu[pola, fo4rge or the like, to faciliate combuestion. Also: tuyer (see diag. under blast furnac) (Webster\'s encyclopedic Unabridged D., ISBN 0-517-15026-3) Tom
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks, Tom! I think just "blast tuyere" will do."
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