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GASOLINE LINE [6 records]

Record 1 2020-12-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petroleum Technology - Equipment
  • Petroleum Cracking
CONT

A [coke drum] is a type of pressure vessel that uses heat and pressure to refine complex hydrocarbons into lighter, more useful products, such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. Coke drums are an integral part of coker units and serve as the final step in the cracking process. During the process, crude oil is fed into a coker, where it is first heated to cracking temperature in a furnace. It is then sent through a transfer line to the coke drum for final processing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareillage (Technologie pétrolière)
  • Craquage (Pétrole)

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fueling Systems (Motor Vehicles)
DEF

A device used on cars equipped with air conditioning to prevent vapor lock by sending gasoline vapors back to the fuel tank through a separate line.

OBS

vapor separator; liquid-vapor separator: terms officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

Key term(s)
  • vapour separator
  • liquid-vapour separator

French

Domaine(s)
  • Alimentation (Véhicules automobiles)
OBS

séparateur de vapeur; séparateur vapeur-liquide : termes uniformisés par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Facilities and Equipment (Metal Joining)
  • Oxygen Cutting (Metals)
CONT

The Petrogen® Liquid Fuel Cutting System is a solid, proven technology that brings you unequally safety, performance, and cost savings. Petrogen makes cuts that are impossible with any other torch, incredibly fast and clean with less airborne contaminants. Petrogen cuts up to 14 inches of steel. The powerful flame easily cuts through layers and across air gaps, through rust, paint, even concrete-backed steel without popping. Petrogen fuel is regular liquid gasoline, kept liquid from the tank to the tip. The Petrogen System is much safer than compressed gas systems such as acetylene or propane. Fuel line backflash is impossible! Many built-in safety features provide the safest cutting torch made. [Text followed by an illustration. ]

OBS

The oxy-gasoline torch is a viable alternative to the oxy-acetylene torch for the dismantlement and size-reduction of metallic D&D debris. ... Petrogen® is a new and better way to cut steel. It’s a solid, proven technology that delivers every advantage over other oxy-fuel systems. ... Among our strongest markets are those whose jobs are safety: Urban Search & Rescue Teams, Fire/Rescue, Mine rescue, Dept. of Energy nuclear demolition contractors and many others. [Text followed by an illustration.]

OBS

Petrogen®: a registered trademark.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement pour l'assemblage des métaux
  • Oxycoupage
OBS

Petrogen® : marque déposée.

Spanish

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Record 4 2002-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fueling Systems (Motor Vehicles)
OBS

Methanol alcohol is used as a winter treatment for automobile gasoline-so called "fuel line antifreeze". Actually, it's not an antifreeze at all in the sense that it doesn’t prevent the water in your gas tank from freezing. Since water won’t mix with gasoline and rolls around on the bottom of your tank it freezes in winter. If it gets in your fuel line it will cause fuel line freeze-ups. Water dissolves in alcohol, and alcohol dissolves in gasoline and it is in this way that your tank is purged of water.

Key term(s)
  • fuel line anti-freeze
  • gas line anti-freeze

French

Domaine(s)
  • Alimentation (Véhicules automobiles)

Spanish

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Record 5 1999-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chains and Cables (Mechanical Components)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

A wire rope used to support the drill tools.

CONT

The rig includes a square open tower or derrick ... At the top of the derrick there is a crown block containing pulley wheels over which are run three steel cables: the casing line ..., the sand line ..., and the drilling line for raising and lowering the drilling tools.

CONT

The drilling line is raised and dropped by a walking-beam mechanism driven by a steam, gasoline, or diesel engine.

CONT

The cable drilling bit is made of a heavy bar of steel or iron 4 to 11 feet ... long, shaped to a blunt edge on one end. The other end has a tapered tool joint for attachment to the drilling cable.

CONT

The percussion bit is alternately lifted and dropped while suspended at the end of the drilling cable.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Câbles et chaînes (Composants mécaniques)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole

Spanish

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Record 6 1981-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drainage and Irrigation (Agric.)
CONT

In a traveler system, a giant sprinkler is mounted on a trailer and moved continuously by a winch. The winch is powered by a water turbine, using the flow of water to the sprinkler, or by a small gasoline or bottled gas engine. Most common traveling sprinklers are fed by a flexible hose from a main line.

Key term(s)
  • travelling sprinkler

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drainage et irrigation (Agriculture)
CONT

Asperseurs mobiles. Ce système [d'irrigation] consiste en un asperseur géant installé sur une remorque et que déplace continuellement un treuil. Ce treuil est actionné par une turbine hydraulique utilisant le débit de l'eau qui se rend à l'asperseur ou bien par un petit moteur à essence ou à gaz combustible. Les asperseurs mobiles les plus communs sont alimentés par un tuyau flexible à partir de la conduite principale.

Spanish

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