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ESCAPING VAPOUR [3 records]

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Record 1 2022-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Tools and Equipment
  • Meats and Meat Industries
DEF

A machine used to render fat by indirect heat.

CONT

Every person who carries on the business or trade, whensoever established, of bone boiler; fertilizer manufacturer or manufacturer of meal from crustacea, fish, meat, animal offal or other animal organic matter; soap boiler; fat melter, tallow melter; or fat... shall-cause all untreated material, manufactured products, residues and waste, and all other material used on or in connection with the premises where his trade is carried on, from which any offensive or noxious odours, vapours, gases or effluvia may be generated, to be placed or stored in a specially constructed storeroom or place and, where necessary, placed in closed receptacles and so handled as to prevent any offensive odour, vapour, gas, effluvium, refuse from boiling pans or residue or any other offensive material likely to produce therefrom, from escaping into the external air...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage industriel
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie
DEF

Machine utilisée pour fondre les suifs et les graisses animales dans un abattoir.

CONT

Chaque abattoir était pourvu d'une triperie et de fondoirs à suif (graisse animale utilisée pour des bougies).

Spanish

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Record 2 2008-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Petroleum Distillation
DEF

A distillation column plate or tray that produces perfect distillation (that is, produces the same difference in composition as that existing between a liquid mixture and the vapor in equilibrium with it).

DEF

Theoretical element of a distillation column in which the escaping vapour is in thermodynamic equilibrium with the related liquid. [Definition standardized by ISO. ]

CONT

The packed-column equivalent of a theoretical plate is the HETP, or the height (of packing) equivalent to a theoretical plate.

OBS

theoretical plate: term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie analytique
  • Distillation du pétrole
DEF

Élément théorique de colonne de distillation dans lequel la vapeur qui s'échappe est en équilibre thermodynamique avec le liquide correspondant. [Définition normalisée par l'ISO.]

CONT

On définit, comme en distillation, la longueur équivalente à un plateau théorique: celle d'une colonne suffisante pour que la phase mobile en sorte en équilibre avec la phase fixe. D'un ordre de grandeur comparable à celui de quelques grains de phase fixe, c'est une valeur expérimentale [...]

OBS

Notion utilisée pour la séparation de 2 ou plusieurs liquides quand les plateaux d'une colonne sont remplacés par une substance de remplissage [...]. Elle permet de prévoir le rendement de cette colonne.

OBS

plateau théorique : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Química analítica
  • Destilación del petróleo
DEF

Unidad de la columna [de destilación] que tiene la misma eficacia en la separación que una destilación simple.

OBS

Se expresa a menudo en centímetros de altura de la columna.

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Record 3 1979-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pre-Fire Planning
Key term(s)
  • escaping vapor

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prévision des incendies
OBS

d'après "fuite de gaz", dans Dictionnaire anglais-français de la prévision des incendies.

Spanish

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