blow down


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blow down

vb
(Mechanical Engineering) to open a valve in a steam boiler to eject any sediment that has collected
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Translations

w>blow down

vi (tree etc)umfallen, umgeweht werden
vt sep (lit)umwehen; blow me down! (inf)Mensch(enskind)! (inf)
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References in classic literature ?
if only the canvas don't blow down. Think what our folks had to stand," he gritted out between groans.
Each unit comes with six 100 micron bags, a tangential inlet, aluminum construction, internal baffle arrangement, an accumulator tank and solenoids for compressed air blow down and a filter pulse timer panel.
Tata Power has installed a Reverse Osmosis plant at Power House #6, Jamshedpur, in order to recover and reuse the blow down water from cooling towers.
There is no point buying a cheap gazebo which will blow down or let in water - choose the sturdiest one you can find, even if it costs a little more.
The demolition, which has been labelled "blow down day" by the organisers, will see an exclusion zone around the area for up to three hours on the day, with limited access to areas for residents throughout the day.
The technique eliminates the need for a vacuum pump or a large supply of blow down gas, significantly reducing cost, complexity, noise, and maintenance compared to rotary evaporators, vacuum centrifuges, and conventional blow-down equipment.
Combustion measurements were fairly easy; monitoring fugitive and vented emissions, mostly of methane, will be much more difficult because measurement has to be done directly, by a worker, which in many cases, particularly with regard to blow down vents, can pose serious safety threats because of the difficulty of getting to those vents.
Is it 'so unfair' if I say that you want to get attention by blowing down your vuvuzela and that the only way to deal with questions you can't answer is to blow down it even louder?
Main danger to the match seemed to be that the giant aluminium posts might blow down. They reeled to an angle of alomst 45 degrees.
I didn't think it would be a big deal: My wingman would blow down the gear and take a trap.