Sentence examples for the blowdown from inspiring English sources
noun
The removal of liquid and solid hydrocarbons from a refinery vessel by the use of pressure
The blowdown is the actual explosion; the dust cloud is the consequence.
The blowdown zone consisted of countless conifers burnt to a crisp and toppled over like so many seared toothpicks.
During the LOCA, the blowdown and the reflood phases are modeled, including the quench waterfront.
Two kinds of tests, the blowdown test and cold-blowdown test were performed.
The blowdown step was performed in vacuum to remove carbon dioxide from zeolite 13X.
The backpressure chamber assisted in the reseating and decreased the blowdown of the NPMS PRV from 18.13% to 5.50%.
For the ratios of rated lift to throat diameter equaling to 0.3 and 0.35, the DWPRV exhibits the higher blowdown for the ratio of 0.35.
These equations are non-dimensionalized based on the most dominant physical processes of the individual stages of a LOCA, namely, the late blowdown stage, the GDCS (gravity driven cooling system) transition stage and the full GDCS stage.
Although some discrepancies existed at the initial blowdown phase, the code calculation agreed well with the experiment data.
It was found that the model can accurately simulate the dynamic performance of the NPMS PRV; the difference in blowdown between the simulation and experiment results is found to be below 0.6%.
The cold-blowdown test was designed to simulate the whole transients of the system blowdown at low pressure conditions.
