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Kohlboden

English translation: coal store


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German term or phrase:Kohlboden
English translation:coal store
Entered by: ConnyB
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15:35 Sep 24, 2011
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Tech/Engineering - Metallurgy / Casting / Hüttenwesen
German term or phrase: Kohlboden
How do you call the part of an ironworks, where the coal is stored? For the moment I have "coal floor", but that doesn't generate any hits at all with google and the metallurgy dictionaries I consulted couldn't help me either...

Any ideas?
Many Thanks!
ConnyB
Local time: 04:14
coal store
Explanation:
"Boden" can mean "store".
(Hard to find a decent reference because "Boden" can be used to mean a lot of things, but from past experience definitely the case).
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Alison Kirkland
Local time: 03:14
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Thanks very much!!
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Summary of answers provided
5 +1coal store
Alison Kirkland
4coal stockyard
Peter Warwick
Summary of reference entries provided
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
coal store


Explanation:
"Boden" can mean "store".
(Hard to find a decent reference because "Boden" can be used to mean a lot of things, but from past experience definitely the case).

Alison Kirkland
Local time: 03:14
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks very much!!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks a lot, I prefer "store", as "yard" gives the impression, the coal is stored outside, but it this context, it is stored inside the ironworks! Conny

Asker: It's really stored inside, there's a picture coming with the text...but coal store works anyway, thank you! :)


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agree  transatgees: Even though it is stored inside the boundaries of the iron-works/foundary, the coal could still be stored in the open air.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
coal stockyard


Explanation:
Krupp Mannesmann steelworks call it a coal stockyard (Web reference)


    Reference: http://www.hkm.de/english/download/hkm-steel-thats-our-busin...
Peter Warwick
Local time: 04:14
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Reference

Reference information:
Untreated biomass, such as wood pellets, require extensive additional capital expenditure for landing (quay facilities), storage (silos, given that wood pellets cannot be stored on a yard, as opposed to coal which is stored on a coal yard), feeder lines to the mills, as well as milling capacity.
http://www.topellenergy.com/product/torrefied-biomass/

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Changes made by editors
Sep 24, 2011 - Changes made by Steffen Walter:
Field (write-in)hüttenwesen => Hüttenwesen


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