A blowdown stack is an elevated vent or vertical stack that is used to vent the pressure of components of a chemical, refinery or other plant if there...

felling of trees by windstorm Blowdown stack, a vertical containment structure at a refinery or chemical plant Blowdown, a process plant controlled or...

vapor cloud came from raffinate liquids overflowing from the top of a blowdown stack. The source of ignition was probably a running vehicle engine. The release...

refinery's blowdown stack malfunctioned and started releasing a cloud of raffinate vapor into the air, a pickup truck that had been parked near the stack with...

increases the respiratory-related hospitalization rate by 0.73%. Blowdown stack Flue-gas stack Gas venting "Section 3: VOC Controls, Chapter 1: Flares" (PDF)...

A blowdown valve (BDV) is a type of shutdown valve designed to depressurize a pressure vessel by directing vapour to a flare, vent or blowdown stack in...

Operation Blowdown was an explosives test carried out in the Kutini-Payamu jungle of Australia's Cape York Peninsula in 1963, to simulate the effects of...

restriction imparted by the three blowdown turbines used on the Wright R-3350 is equal to a well-designed jet stack system used on a conventional radial...

ambient pressure blowdown flows to drain. Automatic blowdown/continuous heat recovery system: This system allows the boiler to blowdown only when makeup...

blowdown is usually stated as a percentage of set pressure and refers to how much the pressure needs to drop before the valve reseats. The blowdown can...

steam and continuous return of condensate to the boiler, losses due to blowdown and leakages have to be made up to maintain a desired water level in the...

wastewater, produced water from oil/gas production, cooling tower makeup & blowdown, metals industry fluids, wash-rack water) Pre-demineralization (e.g., boiler...

non-accidental explosion in Canada. The test was also the first of its kind using a stacked TNT block hemisphere of such magnitude, a method repeated in six subsequent...

process (SAP) at Christina Lake. In 2011, the company began applying its blowdown boiler technology to improve the efficiency of water use at its oil sands...

minerals in the recirculating cooling water. Discharge of draw-off (or blowdown) is used principally to control the buildup of these minerals. The chemistry...

November 2017. Johnson, R. (2006). "The Effect of Pressure Relief Valve Blowdown and Fire Conditions on LPG Pressure Vessels". Journal of Pressure Vessel...

from the plate. Also a purpose pitch or chin music. Archaic usage: "a blowdown". A player batting between .100 and .199 is said to be batting "a buck...

20–40 tons of TNT, comparable in scale to the military test Operation Blowdown) was heard 80 km away (50 miles) and registered 3.4 on the Richter magnitude...

tank (outside the sparger manifold) would occur at the end of the steam blowdown and would be 30 psig and 200°F. Overpressure protection for the RCDT is...

Line railway which runs immediately next to the site, a conventional "blowdown" with explosives was deemed impractical. The buildings instead would be...

~ {\displaystyle {\widetilde {i}}} . Item 3 follows from the fact the blowdown map π is an isomorphism away from the center X × 0 {\displaystyle X\times...

oxygen scavengers and phosphates. The boiler water also has frequent blowdowns in order to keep the chloride content down. The boiler operations also...

Wednesday 8 June 2016. Decommissioning began in June 2016. A total of 6 blowdown demolitions took place for the removal of the turbine hall and boiler house...

testing new prototype equipment, military targets and coniferous forest blowdown, and defoliation. Participants included Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia...

Just past the overlook, the road passes numerous large chestnut tree blowdowns. These trees, which often grew to 5–6 feet in diameter, were killed off...

used to refill the tender if needed, the train crew will perform a boiler blowdown on the locomotive and the maintenance crew will service it. In the final...

outlet, the saturated steam was directed to a separator, which removed blowdown water, impurities, and salts concentrated in the steam. The separator is...

elevation gradually. Here, the trains going downhill will perform a boiler blowdown. This is where the engine releases steam from the boiler to clear sediments...

days, but anything up to 180 days is possible. The process starts with a “blowdown” while some pressure remains in the boiler, then the draining away of all...

Missouri. An estimated 25,000 people were affected. January 29 – During the blowdown of a dehydrator, LPG fumes caught fire at Conway, Kansas, killing a pipeline...