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Safety design feature for industrial plant buildings
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
Blowdown_stack
Topics referred to by the same term
felling of trees by windstorm Blowdown stack, a vertical containment structure at a refinery or chemical plant Blowdown, a process plant controlled or
Blowdown
2005 deadly refinery accident
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
Texas_City_refinery_explosion
Safety device for burning off flammable gas
increases the respiratory-related hospitalization rate by 0.73%. Blowdown stack Flue-gas stack Gas venting "Section 3: VOC Controls, Chapter 1: Flares" (PDF)
Gas_flare
Mechanical issue caused by fuel released from an unintended source
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
Diesel_engine_runaway
Valve that automatically stops the flow of a hazardous fluid in a dangerous event
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
Shutdown_valve
Australian test explosion
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
Operation_Blowdown
Reciprocating engine combined with a blowdown turbine
important aircraft arrangement, turbo-compounding was achieved by using blowdown turbines to recover energy from exhaust-gas pulses and return it to the
Turbo-compound_engine
Safety valve used to control or limit the pressure in a system
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
Relief_valve
Closed vessel in which fluid is heated
ambient pressure blowdown flows to drain. Automatic blowdown/continuous heat recovery system: This system allows the boiler to blowdown only when makeup
Boiler
Power plant that generates electricity from heat energy
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
Thermal_power_station
Applied electric potential transport of salt ions
wastewater, produced water from oil/gas production, cooling tower makeup & blowdown, metals industry fluids, wash-rack water) Pre-demineralization (e.g., boiler
Electrodialysis
Fuel for heating, cooking and vehicles
November 2017. Johnson, R. (2006). "The Effect of Pressure Relief Valve Blowdown and Fire Conditions on LPG Pressure Vessels". Journal of Pressure Vessel
Liquefied_petroleum_gas
Facility for supporting saturation diving projects
overall saturation exposure, so different gas mixtures may be used during blowdown and day-to-day living in the surface chambers (storage), diving excursions
Saturation_diving_system
Canadian explosives test in 1964
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
Operation_Snowball_(test)
Canadian integrated oil and natural gas company
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
Cenovus_Energy
Device which rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a water stream
minerals in the recirculating cooling water. Discharge of draw-off (or blowdown) is used principally to control the buildup of these minerals. The chemistry
Cooling_tower
Scheme in algebraic geometry
~ {\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
Normal cone (algebraic geometry)
Normal_cone_(algebraic_geometry)
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
Glossary_of_baseball_terms
Residential in Glasgow, Scotland
Line railway which runs immediately next to the site, a conventional "blowdown" with explosives was deemed impractical. The buildings instead would be
Bluevale_and_Whitevale_Towers
1979 nuclear accident in Pennsylvania
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
Three_Mile_Island_accident
Series of non-nuclear explosive and detonable gas tests
testing new prototype equipment, military targets and coniferous forest blowdown, and defoliation. Participants included Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia
Operation_Distant_Plain
List of large explosions
Jack R.; Clifford, Jr., C. C. (June 1964). Preliminary Report Operation Blowdown. Archived from the original on 4 May 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2017. Kurak
Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions
Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions
Water supplied to a boiler
oxygen scavengers and phosphates. The boiler water also has frequent blowdowns in order to keep the chloride content down. The boiler operations also
Boiler_feedwater
Safety systems of boiling water reactors
systems (LPCS/LPCI/LPCF/GDCS) to restore reactor water level. During an ADS blowdown, the steam being removed from the reactor is sufficient to ensure adequate
Boiling water reactor safety systems
Boiling_water_reactor_safety_systems
Heritage railroad in Colorado and New Mexico, US
lose elevation gradually. Here, trains descending will perform a boiler blowdown. This is where the engine releases steam from the boiler to clear sediments
Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad
Cumbres_and_Toltec_Scenic_Railroad
Series of two former coal-fired power stations
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
Rugeley_power_stations
Facility generating electric power
(Includes cooling tower material balance for evaporation emissions and blowdown effluents. Available in many university libraries) Riverkeeper, Inc. v
Power_station
Type of boiler
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
Fire-tube_boiler
venting gas from a 24-inch diameter pipeline ignited during a planned blowdown. The fire was extinguished about 40 minutes after it ignited. Damage from
List of pipeline accidents in the United States in the 2000s
List_of_pipeline_accidents_in_the_United_States_in_the_2000s
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
List of pipeline accidents in the United States in the 1970s
List_of_pipeline_accidents_in_the_United_States_in_the_1970s
BD – bursting disc BDF – below derrick floor BDL – bit data log BDV – blowdown valve BGL – borehole geometry log BGL – below ground level (used as a datum
List of abbreviations in oil and gas exploration and production
List_of_abbreviations_in_oil_and_gas_exploration_and_production
Blashke Islands Bligh Island Blind Island Block Island Blodgett Island Blowdown Island Blue Jay Rock Bluefish Island Bluff Island Boat Island Boat Rock
List_of_islands_of_Alaska
pillar valve to allow connection of a yoke regulator or filling whip. blowdown 1. Procedure of pressurising a diving chamber or saturation habitat. 2
Glossary of underwater diving terminology: A–C
Glossary_of_underwater_diving_terminology:_A–C
Two power stations, the coal-fired station closed in 2019
The boiler house was demolished on 22 February 2024 at 10 am. The chimney stack was demolished on 20 March 2025 at 11 am. All eight cooling towers were
Cottam_power_stations
Stream in Tennessee
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
Roaring Fork (Great Smoky Mountains)
Roaring_Fork_(Great_Smoky_Mountains)
List of definitions of terms and concepts commonly used in agriculture
strong winds, a type of blowdown. Compare windthrow. windthrow The uprooting of a tree by very strong winds, a type of blowdown. Compare windsnap. winnowing
Glossary_of_agriculture
Former power station in Switzerland
outlet, the saturated steam was directed to a separator, which removed blowdown water, impurities, and salts concentrated in the steam. The separator is
Thermal_power_plant_of_Vouvry
Steam railroad system in Walt Disney World
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
Walt_Disney_World_Railroad
Class of Australian 4-6-0 steam locomotives
indicator gear on A2980 and later A2951, and tender scale buoy and continuous blowdown for A2875. Some of the last changes involved fitting of integral water
Victorian_Railways_A2_class
overpressure triggered a relief valve to open, releasing natural gas for a blowdown that lasted 40 minutes and sounded like a jet engine. The gas escaped into
List of pipeline accidents in the United States in the 2010s
List_of_pipeline_accidents_in_the_United_States_in_the_2010s
BLOWDOWN STACK
BLOWDOWN STACK
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly West Midlands)
English (mainly West Midlands) : probably a habitational name from a place so named in North Yorkshire.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant or patronymic form of Stack.
Surname or Lastname
Norwegian
Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads, so named from Old Norse hlað ‘pile or stack’ (for example, of wood or stones) or ‘pavement’.North German : short form of Ladwig, a variant of Ludwig.English : topographic name for someone living by a road, path, or watercourse, Middle English lade, lode (Old English (ge)lÄd).
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu
Lotus Stack; Intelligent; Princess
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Stockhow in Cumbria, first attested in 1581 as Stackay.
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Indian, Jain, Marathi
Lotus Stack
Boy/Male
French
He who delivers the news.
Surname or Lastname
German (of Slavic origin)
German (of Slavic origin) : from a pet form of the personal name Pavel or Paweł, respectively the Czech and Polish forms of Paul, or from a Sorbian cognate.German (of Slavic origin) : nickname for a small man, from Slavic palac ‘thumb’.Irish : MacLysaght ascribes the origin of this surname in Ireland to the arrival there in the 15th century of a Lombard family of bankers named de Palatio.English : from Old French palis, paleis ‘palisade’, ‘fence’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a palisade or a metonymic occupational name for a maker of fences.English : possibly a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked at a palace (bishop’s, archbishop’s, or royal), from Old French, Middle English palais, paleis.English : metonymic occupational name for a worker at a straw stack, from Old French paille ‘straw’ + Middle English hous ‘house’.Greek : ornamental name or nickname from Albanian pallë ‘sword’.Catalan (Pallà s) : variant spelling of Pallars, a regional name from the Catalan district of Pallars, in the Pyrenees.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived at a place where wood was stacked, from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + fīn ‘pile’.
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
Lotus Stack
Girl/Female
Tamil
Lotus stack
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived near a heap of some kind, from Middle English reke ‘stack’, ‘heap’.German : from Radeke, a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with rÄd ‘advice’, ‘counsel’.Altered spelling of German Reeck.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a large, well-built man, from Middle English stack ‘haystack’ (from Old Norse stakkr). The surname is now less common in England than in Ireland (especially County Kerry), where it was first taken in the 13th century; it has been Gaelicized Stac.German : variant of Staack.Americanized form of Polish or Czech Stach.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of several places called Bowden or Bowdon. Bowden in Devon and Derbyshire and Bowdon in Cheshire are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + dūn ‘hill’, i.e. ‘hill shaped like a bow’; one in Leicestershire (Bugedone in Domesday Book) comes, according to Ekwall, from the Old English personal name Būga (masculine) or Bucge (feminine) + dūn. There are also Scottish places of this name, but there are comparatively few bearers of the surname Bowden north of the border.English : habitational name from Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, so named with the Old English phrase būfan dūne ‘on, upon the hill’. The surname may also have arisen as a topographic name from the same phrase used independently, for someone who lived at the top of a hill.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadáin ‘descendant of Buadán’, an Old Irish personal name.
BLOWDOWN STACK
BLOWDOWN STACK
Surname or Lastname
English
English : perhaps a variant spelling of Gallon.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Galin.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Holy Man
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Strong; Brave Man
Girl/Female
Arabic
Smart
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
One who Conquers the Battlefield of the Mind; Victory in the Battlefield
Boy/Male
Muslim
Easy to deal with
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Light of God's Heart; Real Hero of God
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Lord Krishna / Shiva
Biblical
that scatters abroad, or demolishes, the fat
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Rake.
BLOWDOWN STACK
BLOWDOWN STACK
BLOWDOWN STACK
BLOWDOWN STACK
BLOWDOWN STACK
n.
Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
a.
A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.
n.
A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.
n.
To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood.
v. i.
The frame of a stack of hay or grain.
n.
A tax on things stacked.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Stack
n.
A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a rickstand.
a.
Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel.
n.
A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack.
a.
A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:
n.
To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack of grain.
v. t.
To remove, or take away, from a stack; to remove, as something constituting a stack.
n.
A stockade.
n.
A yard or inclosure for stacks of hay or grain.
n.
Hay, gray, or the like, in stacks; things stacked.
a.
A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.
imp. & p. p.
of Stack
a.
A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack.