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GREEN CHIPS [5 records]

Record 1 2013-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Products
  • Biomass Energy
DEF

green chips : Wood chips made of fresh logging and thinning by-products, including branches and tops.

OBS

green chip: term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • green chips

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits du bois
  • Énergie de la biomasse
DEF

copeaux verts : Copeaux de bois obtenus à partir de sous-produits d'exploitation forestière et d'éclaircies frais, y compris des branches et des houppiers.

OBS

copeau vert : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • copeaux verts

Spanish

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Record 2 2007-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Burners and Steamfitting
  • Biomass Energy
DEF

A type of biomass combustion burner in which a pile of fuel burns on the grates.

OBS

Primary combustion air comes from above the grates, not below.

CONT

The boilers are fed wood fuel from the main fuel bin located adjacent to the boiler house. The boilers are the "pile burner" type, which burn wood in a large pile on the floor of a refractory lined furnace box. Combustion efficiency with this type of boiler is generally low but pile burners are simple and therefore relatively inexpensive. Low combustion efficiency also means that emissions such as particulates and carbon monoxide are relatively high. One notable advantage to these systems is that high moisture content fuels can be burned as well as "dirty" fuels containing debris.

CONT

Pile burner : Boilers incorporating a pile burning design find applications where the anticipated wood fuel has a high(up to 65%) relative moisture content, as is found in whole green tree chips, bark, and green mill residue. Grates serve to support the fuel, and underfire air flowing up through the grates provides oxygen for combustion, cools the grates, promotes turbulence in the fuel bed, and dries the fuel. The most common form of pile burning is the Dutch oven, which was used almost exclusively during the early part of the century(Guinn and Turner 1990).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fumisterie et brûleurs
  • Énergie de la biomasse
CONT

Le combustible de bois sec est mélangé à de la sciure de bois vert afin de produire un mélange de combustible qui convienne aux brûleurs de biomasse [...]

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-09-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Golf
DEF

A short shot lofting the ball into the air in a high arc and landing with backspin.

CONT

The pitch shot is used when the ball is from 15 feet to 75 yards from the green. The eight or nine iron or a pitching wedge is used to give the ball loft and backspin. This shot is hit high to a spot near the flagstick, where backspin causes it to stop.

OBS

Chip shots differ from pitch shots in that pitch shots are meant to have a higher trajectory that results in a shot landing closer to the pin and rolling just a bit. Pitch shots are typically played from farther off the green than chips shots.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Golf
CONT

[...] la balle doit suivre une trajectoire plus haute et rouler relativement peu. [...] Le bâton idéal pour le «pitch» est le wedge d'allée [ou] un fer-9.

OBS

On distingue le coup d'approche roulé (chip) et le coup d'approche lobé (pitch).

Spanish

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Record 4 2003-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Facilities and Equipment (Wood Industries)
  • Plywood
DEF

A small veneer lathe designed to handle shorter peeler block lengths.

CONT

The facility stores, debarks, and cuts logs into blocks in the log yard. Three lathes peel the blocks to produce green veneer, with peeler cores and wood chips as by-products. One lathe, the four foot core lathe, is driven by steam.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
  • Contreplaqués
DEF

Dérouleuse de dimensions réduites conçue pour le déroulage des billes courtes.

Spanish

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Record 5 1994-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pulp Preparation (papermaking)
DEF

Cooking liquor formed by refortifying green liquor in the causticizing operation of an alkaline-type pulp mill so that it contains the active chemicals that will reduce chips into their fiber components by dissolving the lignin cementing material during the digester operation, thereby producing pulp.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Préparation de la pâte à papier
DEF

Liqueur verte caustifiée.

Spanish

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