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szykany

English translation: chicanes

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Polish term or phrase:szykany
English translation:chicanes
Entered by: Alina Ostrowska-Mroczek

14:10 Mar 20, 2007
Polish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Chemistry; Chem Sci/Eng
Polish term or phrase: szykany
Fragment instrukcji obsługi stacji dozującej flokulant:)
Zalecane jest aby zanim brudna woda z flokulantem trafi do osadnika, została dobrze wymieszana poprzez jakieś szykany lub zakręty w kanale.
Alina Ostrowska-Mroczek
Poland
Local time: 09:54
chicanes
Explanation:
poszperaj w linkach tu http://tinyurl.com/3anqdp
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SlawekW
Local time: 09:54
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Summary of answers provided
4baffles
Marian Krzymiński
3baffle pier
Krzysztof Nowoszynski
3chicanes
SlawekW


  

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baffle pier


Explanation:
za słownikiem pol-ang, wnt, 2002

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Note added at 12 mins (2007-03-20 14:22:54 GMT)
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pierwszy link z google:

http://glossary.gardenweb.com/glossary/baffle-pier.html
baffle-pier: A blockage placed in the path of high-velocity water, like a pier on the apron of an overflow dam.

Krzysztof Nowoszynski
Poland
Local time: 09:54
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
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chicanes


Explanation:
poszperaj w linkach tu http://tinyurl.com/3anqdp

SlawekW
Local time: 09:54
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
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baffles


Explanation:
Baffles are needed to stop the swirl in a mixing tank. Almost all impellers rotate in the clockwise or counter-clockwise direction. Without baffles, the tangential velocities coming from any impeller(s) causes the entire fluid mass to spin.
See link below1


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Marian Krzymiński
Poland
Local time: 09:54
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Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 74
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