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Meaning of blowdown

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

blowdown

noun

Definitions

  1. (chemical engineering) The removal of liquid and solid hydrocarbons from a refinery vessel by the use of pressure

  2. (industrial engineering) Cooling fluid discharged from a plant at the end of its cycle.

  3. Uprooting, overtopping, or bole breakage of trees by the wind; windthrow and windsnap.