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Italian to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation
Italian term or phrase:pontificazioni
Il materiale ha una capacità importante nell’evitare pontificazioni per cui qualunque sistema di alimentazione sarebbe possibile senza particolari accorgimenti.
In relation to a biomass boiler that uses oat husk to generate renewable energy.
Anyone any idea what is meant by 'pontificazioni' here?
Explanation: I think what they are talking about is the effect of bridging or creating bridges. This happens, for example in a hopper when the material flows out of the bottom but the overlying material sort of creates a bridge (an arch of material) and the hopper is effectively plugged. It is not stopped up but the flow stops because of this bridge. Then you have to vibrate or beat on the side to break the bridge and start the material flowing again. Sometimes they add flow enhances (for example to plastics) to prevent this.
In the last example, the word seems to mean 'internal bridging' -if this word had something to do with 'bridges' in the other example, there are one or two instances to 'material bridging' with reference to the way they build up at the mouth of an outlet, and stop flowing..eg
La densità bulk è dell’ordine dei 200-220 kg/m3 e il materiale presenta una certa “sofficità” che lo rende praticamente esente da pontificazioni al proprio interno.
Not that I'm aware of, but 'alimentazione' can mean 'power supply'or 'feeding', and since the oat husks are being used as a 'feedstock', I think they are using 'pontificate' outside of its strict definition
Could it just be a poor use of the verb 'to pontificate' e.g. 'if we use this material, we avoid having to pontificate about what other power system we use, as it would not involve any additional safety precautions being put in place'
Could it refer to something like rectifiers: bridge rectifiers, diode rectifiers
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Pontificate
Explanation: I think this is just inexact use of the verb 'to pontificate'
'if we use this material,we avoid having to pontificate (think very deeply) about what other power systems we can use without having to take additional safety precautions'
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'the material' being the feedstock, 'oat husk' being the suggested alternative 'sistema di alimentazione'
Dr Lofthouse United Kingdom Works in field Native speaker of: English, Italian PRO pts in category: 42
Explanation: I think what they are talking about is the effect of bridging or creating bridges. This happens, for example in a hopper when the material flows out of the bottom but the overlying material sort of creates a bridge (an arch of material) and the hopper is effectively plugged. It is not stopped up but the flow stops because of this bridge. Then you have to vibrate or beat on the side to break the bridge and start the material flowing again. Sometimes they add flow enhances (for example to plastics) to prevent this.
Eileen Cartoon Local time: 11:57 Works in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 8
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Asker: Thanks for explaining - had never heard of bridging in this sense but then again I'm no expert on boilers!
Reference information: Glossary, Biomass Boilers, Wood Pellet Boilers, Biomass Heaters ... www.treco.co.uk/glossary/ - Cached9 Jun 2011 – ... certain wood chip boilers which stirs the chip to prevent it 'bridging'. ... Biomass boilers generally run on wood pellets, wood chip, ... The tank acts as an interface between the boiler and the heating system, ... Hoppers may have a feed mechanism at the bottom so the biomass material can be ...
Biomass Heating Technology - Biomass Boilers www.asgard-biomass.co.uk/biomass_heating.aspx - CachedAn Overview of Biomass Heating Systems. Biomass Boiler assembly from Evoworld ... consisting of four key elements: Fuel storage, fuel feed mechanism, ... not free flowing materials and have a tendency to bridge, and so storage bunkers, ...
liz askew United Kingdom Native speaker of: English
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