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OPERATIONAL PLANT [21 records]

Record 1 2023-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wastewater Treatment
CONT

The term "package treatment unit" is applied to a wide spectrum of plant manufactured [modules] assembled ahead of time, usually at a manufacturing facility remote from the site. A package unit is typically delivered to the site as a skid-mounted unit, pre-piped and pre-wired ready for connecting to the process tanks and mains services, thus saving on installation work and operational downtime.... Package units can... provide a first stage of treatment for effluent from industry, particularly the food and drink sector, in order to cut discharge costs.

OBS

package: A preassembled unit.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des eaux usées
Key term(s)
  • unité de traitement pré-assemblée

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Plant Safety
DEF

A system designed to support the operation of one or more safety systems.

CONT

Safety support systems provide services such as electrical, compressed air, and water to systems important to safety. The safety support systems ensure that the fundamental safety functions are available in all plant states, including normal operation, AOO [anticipated operational occurrence], DBA [design basis accident] and, to the extent practicable, BDBA [beyond design basis accident] states.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sûreté des centrales nucléaires
DEF

Système conçu pour assister le fonctionnement d'un [...] ou de plusieurs systèmes de sûreté

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plans and Specifications (Construction)
  • Nuclear Power Stations
  • Nuclear Plant Safety
CONT

The design basis comprises basic specifications for the design in order to ensure the capacity of [a] plant to undergo a specified range of operational conditions, accidents and external hazards within strict radiological limits.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Devis, cahiers des charges et plans (Construction)
  • Centrales nucléaires
  • Sûreté des centrales nucléaires
DEF

Détermination des caractéristiques d'une installation [nucléaire] lors de sa conception pour satisfaire à des critères préétablis et à la pratique règlementaire.

OBS

dimensionnement : désignation et définition publiées au Journal officiel de la République française le 22 septembre 2000.

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Standards
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
  • Scientific Research Facilities
OBS

The Containment Standards for Facilities Handling Plant Pests(CSFHPP) describe the minimum acceptable physical and operational requirements for facilities working with plant pests(other than weeds)... The CSFHPP outline the physical and operational requirements appropriate for the specific pest under consideration. It is important to note that while the CSFHPP are primarily intended to address facilities importing plant pests, they also apply to facilities that collect or isolate plant pests within Canada.

OBS

The CSFHPP do not apply to soil, genetically modified plants, and biological control insects.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de normes
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
  • Installations de recherche scientifique
OBS

Les Normes relatives au confinement des installations manipulant des phytoravageurs (NCIMP) décrivent les exigences physiques et opérationnelles minimales que doivent respecter les installations manipulant des phytoravageurs (autres que les mauvaises herbes) [...] Les exigences physiques et opérationnelles sont décrites dans les NCIMP pour chacun des ravageurs visés. Il est important de noter que, bien que les NCIMP visent principalement les installations qui importent des phytoravageurs, elles s'appliquent également aux installations qui recueillent ou isolent des phytoravageurs au Canada.

OBS

Les NCIMP ne s'appliquent pas à la terre, aux végétaux génétiquement modifiés ni aux insectes utilisés comme agents de lutte biologique.

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
CONT

Whereas in the past the majority of senior management's time was spent on operational matters and solving problems, they now spend the largest part of their time on creating and tracking strategies for the plant.

Key term(s)
  • develop strategies

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
Key term(s)
  • élaborer des stratégies

Spanish

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Record 6 2009-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wastewater Treatment
CONT

The HRT facility has two 13 metre diameter vortex tanks that when operational during a storm event or from a rapid snow melt will separate the solids from the water. The solids are pumped to a new Regional pumping station for treatment at the Niagara Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des eaux usées

Spanish

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Record 7 2008-02-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Plant Safety
DEF

Systems in a nuclear plant that allow the setting of automatic measures and regulation and ensure the operational safety of a given material.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sûreté des centrales nucléaires
DEF

Ensemble des systèmes qui, dans une installation nucléaire, effectuent automatiquement les mesures [et] assurent la régulation et la protection.

Key term(s)
  • contrôle commande

Spanish

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Record 8 2007-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineral Processing (Metallurgy)
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
  • Coal-Derived Fuels
DEF

A flowsheet indicating the main operational steps within a plant, the movement of the various materials between the steps and the final products obtained.

OBS

The average mass flow at various points in the plant may also be shown.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralurgie (Métallurgie)
  • Techniques industrielles
  • Combustibles dérivés des charbons
DEF

Schéma de traitement indiquant les étapes opératoires principales à l'intérieur de l'atelier, le mouvement des diverses matières entre les étapes et les produits finals obtenus, souvent aussi les débits de matières que l'atelier doit être capable de traiter en divers points.

Spanish

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Record 9 2007-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Accounting
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
DEF

The period cost of part replacement or other corrective action to restore plant and machinery to efficient operational condition.

Key term(s)
  • repairs

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité générale
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
DEF

Coûts engagés pour remettre en bon état un bien, notamment une immobilisation qui présente une diminution de son potentiel de service.

OBS

Les coûts engagés pour accroître le potentiel de service d'une immobilisation correspondent à une amélioration, et non à une réparation. Les coûts de réparation ne sont généralement pas ajoutés au coût inscrit à l'actif au titre de d'immobilisation considérée, mais plutôt passés en charges.

Key term(s)
  • réparations

Spanish

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Record 10 2007-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Power Stations
DEF

Operation of a NPP [nuclear power plant] with specified operational limits and conditions including startup, power operation, shutting down, shutdown, maintenance, testing and refueling.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Centrales nucléaires
DEF

Exploitation d'une centrale nucléaire à l'intérieure de certaines limites et conditions opérationnelles spécifiées incluant le démarrage, le fonctionnement en régime de puissance, en processus d'arrêt, l'arrêt, l'entretien et le rechargement de combustible.

Spanish

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Record 11 2007-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Plant Safety
DEF

An operational process deviating from normal operation which is expected to occur once or several times during the operating lifetime of the power plant but which, in view of the appropriate design provisions, does not cause any significant damage to items important to safety nor lead to accident conditions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sûreté des centrales nucléaires
DEF

Procédé opérationnel s'éloignant de l'exploitation normale [qui] peut survenir à une ou plusieurs reprises pendant la durée de vie de l'exploitation de la centrale nucléaire, mais [qui], à la lumière des dispositions appropriées relatives à la conception [...] ne risque pas de causer des dommages importants [...] sur le plan de la sûreté, ni de causer des conditions d'accident.

Spanish

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Record 12 2007-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Military Titles
  • Weapon Systems
OBS

The Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant is a Government-owned, contractor-operated military installation. The installation began operations in 1942. The primary operational mission of the installation was to manufacture smokeless powder and single-, double-, and triple-base propellants.

OBS

The name of the plant was changed from the Sunflower Ordnance Works to Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant (SFAAP) on August 1, 1963.

OBS

The Department of the Army no longer requires the facility for ammunition production ... Due to past production activities at the installation, some portions of the installation are contaminated ... Clean-up operations are currently on going, with further efforts planned.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations militaires diverses
  • Systèmes d'armes

Spanish

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Record 13 2003-10-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petroleum Distillation
CONT

The Shell Middle Distillate Synthesis(SMDS) plant now operational at Bintulu, Malaysia, is the latest in a series of partnership projects between Shell companies and the people of Malaysia that stretches back for more than 100 years. The new plant uses advanced technology to convert natural gas, abundantly available from the Central Luconia field offshore Sarawak, into liquid fuels of high purity. These fuels can also be used as components to upgrade lower quality stock derived from conventional crude oil processing. In addition, the plant can produce high-value waxes, as well as feedstocks for detergents and lubricants. The product mix can be varied to meet market needs. The SMDS technology was developed at the Shell laboratory in Amsterdam(KSLA) over a period of 20 years. After commercial and technical assessment, Bintulu was chosen in preference to sites in other parts of the world as an appropriate location for the employment of SMDS technology in the first commercial plant.

CONT

February 2003, Royal Dutch Shell (Netherlands) announced its plans to build two GTL facilities with a combined capacity of 75 000 bbls/d. QP is looking to employ Shell’s middle distillates synthesis (SDMS) technology to convert gas into diesel and kerosene.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Distillation du pétrole
OBS

technologie SMDS développée par Shell pour la synthèse des distillats moyens.

Spanish

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Record 14 2003-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geothermal Power Plants
  • Geophysics
  • Energy Transformation
CONT

The only known operational example of a binary cycle geothermal plant, as distinct from laboratory prototypes, is the small 750 kW(nominal) unit at Paratunka in Kamchatka, USSR.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Centrales géothermiques
  • Géophysique
  • Transformation de l'énergie

Spanish

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Record 15 2000-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineral Processing (Metallurgy)
  • Processing of Mineral Products
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
DEF

A diagram indicating, preferably by symbols, the units of equipment used in the operational steps carried out within a plant.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralurgie (Métallurgie)
  • Préparation des produits miniers
  • Techniques industrielles
DEF

Graphique indiquant, de préférence par des signes conventionnels, les appareils de l'atelier à employer dans les diverses étapes opératoires parcourues à l'intérieur d'un atelier de préparation.

Spanish

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Record 16 1999-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Law
  • Environmental Economics
CONT

Processing standards include : a) emission standards... ;b) design standards for stationary plant prescribing the requirements to be observed with regard to environmental protection when planning and constructing stationary plants; c) operational standards.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit environnemental
  • Économie environnementale
DEF

Type de norme de procédés qui réglemente spécifiquement l'impact environnemental de la construction d'usines, de fabriques, etc.

Spanish

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Record 17 1999-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Law
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
CONT

Processing standards include : a) emission standards which set limit values for pollution and disamenities which must not be exceeded in emissions from stationary sources; b) design standards for stationary plant prescribing the requirements to be observed with regard to environmental protection when planning and constructing stationary plants; c) operational standards stipulating the requirements to be met with regard to environmental protection when operating stationary plants.

OBS

Processing standards can either be the same for the whole economic area, or can vary from place to place in accordance with local differences in standards of environmental quality and the use made of them, but they must in any case be strict enough to ensure that the standard of environmental quality will be complied with.

OBS

Compare with "production standard".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit environnemental
  • Techniques industrielles
CONT

Les normes de procédés s'appliquent aux installations de production sous la forme de normes d'émission, de conception, de construction et d'exploitation des installations (ces modalités relevant souvent de la législation du travail et de codes de bonne pratique).

OBS

Essentiellement les normes de produits se penchent sur l'impact d'un produit donné sur l'environnement; les normes de procédés se penchent sur l'impact environnemental de l'équipement, de l'installation utilisés dans sa production.

Spanish

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Record 18 1997-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Power Stations
  • Production (Economics)
CONT

MODVAT on Capital Goods for Captive Power Generation.... It is... regretted that MODVAT is not allowed when the same generating set is used for generating captive power but in a separate factory belonging to the same unit. The separate location is for valid operational reasons. For example, a large aluminum company with its smelting operations has located its captive power plant some distance away from the aluminum factory but at a place where it has access to coal and water and other infrastructure. The captive power unit is a big unit and cannot be within the aluminum factory. This unit generates electricity, which is transmitted to its aluminum factory for its exclusive use in the production of aluminum.... the captive power plant should be treated as an extension of the factory as it is used to produce the finished product....

OBS

captive (adj.): owned or controlled by another concern and operated according to its needs or demands rather than for an open market (a captive coal mine).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Centrales électriques
  • Production (Économie)
OBS

Voir fiches «production captive», «houillère intégrée» et «mine captive».

Spanish

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Record 19 1988-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Establishments

French

Domaine(s)
  • Établissements industriels

Spanish

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Record 20 1988-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
  • Ecology (General)
CONT

To be useful as an operational guide, social scoping is often cast in terms of the plant or animal species perceived by society to be important. Thus, among other more ecological criteria, Carins(1975) used commercial, recreational or aesthetic values as some of the bases for establishing a list of critical species. Similarly, Trutt(1978) established the focus for a major impact research programme on ’key species’ which were defined on the basis of abundance, and commercial, recreational and food value to man.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Études et analyses environnementales
  • Écologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 21 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Productivity and Profitability
OBS

Operational: ready for or in condition to undertake a destined function (the new pool should be in a few weeks); esp. serviced in readiness for action (the fleet is fully manned)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Productivité et rentabilité
OBS

Usine livrée avec ses machines et les techniciens qui la mettent en service et forment le personnel nécessaire à son fonctionnement.

Spanish

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