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GAS LIFTING [5 records]

Record 1 2011-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drying Equipment (Air Cond. and Heating)
DEF

A rotary dryer which is not equipped with lifting lights inside the dryer shell to shower the wet material through the hot gas stream.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Étuves et séchoirs (Cond. de l'air et chauffage)
OBS

Dans le vocabulaire du séchage, le mot tambour désigne un cylindre en tôle [...] tournant lentement autour d'un axe légèrement incliné sur l'horizontale. Le corps humide est introduit à la partie supérieure par un tapis ou une vis d'Archimède; il avance par gravité, les grains roulant les uns sur les autres.

Spanish

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Record 2 2007-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Forestry Operations
  • Transport of Wood
CONT

Balloon extraction systems. These are cable systems that use balloons filled with a lighter-than-air gas(usually helium) to provide the lifting force that fully suspends the load of logs during extraction. Experience with balloon logging suggests that it is only feasible for clear-felling operations... Balloon logging also requires cutting units that are large enough to cover the high fixed costs associated with installing the balloon system at a landing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation forestière
  • Transport du bois
CONT

Systèmes de débardage par ballon. Ce sont des systèmes de débardage par câble, où des ballons remplis d'un gaz plus léger que l'air (d'ordinaire de l'hélium) fournissent la force portante permettant de soulever totalement du sol la charge de billes pendant le débardage [...] L'expérience acquise dans ce domaine semble indiquer que le débardage par ballon ne convient qu'aux opérations de coupe rase [...]

Spanish

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Record 3 2007-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil and Natural Gas Extraction
DEF

A method of lifting oil from the bottom of a well to the surface by the use of compressed gas.

CONT

Many oil wells do not have a formation pressure high enough to push the oil... to the surface. In these cases, some artificial method for lifting the oil to the surface must be installed. [A] method, called gas lift, uses the buoyancy of a bubble of gas in the tubing to push the oil to the surface.

OBS

The gas is pumped into the hole and at the lower end of the tubing it becomes a part of the fluid in the well. As the gas expands, it lifts the oil to the surface.

Key term(s)
  • gas lifting
  • gas lift method

French

Domaine(s)
  • Extraction du pétrole et du gaz naturel
DEF

Procédé d'exploitation des puits de pétrole par injection de gaz provoquant l'allégement par émulsion de la colonne d'huile.

CONT

[...] la plupart des puits ne sont pas jaillissants et on doit avoir recours à un procédé d'extraction artificielle : pompage, ascension par poussée de gaz, etc.

CONT

Extraction de pétrole par injection de gaz.

OBS

allègement : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 4 2006-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
CONT

Oil and gas platforms. Since 1981 Gleitbau Salzburg has left its mark on reinforced concrete platform construction projects around the world.... The extreme conditions [in the North Sea projects in the 70s] forced them to create innovations which today are the foundation for geo-metrically complicated and immensely high building structures.... The services include... the heavy lifting technique assists in the raising of pre-cast concrete elements or fabricated steel platforms into both the drilling and utility shafts, onto monolithically cast support brackets.

CONT

After a significant gas leak on a gas platform it was found that drawings did not reflect the actual plant.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
CONT

L'Office Canada-Nouvelle-Écosse des hydrocarbures extracôtiers [...] a permis à ExxonMobil de consentir à une firme américaine [...] un gros contrat de construction d'une plate-forme de forage gazier [...]

CONT

L'industrie côtière, une industrie primaire à la base, [...] englobe [aussi] la fabrication de plate-formes de forage pétrolier et gazier et la construction de navire hauturiers de ravitaillement [...]

OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Key term(s)
  • plateforme de forage gazier

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Traffic Control
  • Aircraft Propulsion Systems
CONT

Hydrogen can be used as the lifting gas.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circulation et trafic aériens
  • Propulsion des aéronefs

Spanish

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