tour aéroduc

12:09 Dec 20, 2010

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French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation / Power plant site facilities

French term or phrase: tour aéroduc

I have not been able to find any occurrences of this term on the 'Net, can anyone possibly confirm what it ought to mean? It is among a list of structures on a major power plant construction site, including, boiler, etc., and I strongly suspect it does indeed mean a 'cooling tower' (which would make technical sense), only it doesn't seem to be the usual term?

Appears in a document about overall building site safety at this plant to be constructed.

Tony M KudoZ activity Questions: 333 (2 open) (30 closed without grading) Answers: 15219 France
Local time: 15:07

Summary of answers provided

air intake tower

B D Finch

Summary of reference entries provided

Réseau de distribution d'air

kashew

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1 hr confidence:

air intake tower

Explanation:
Seems likely.

"... detection on the lighting and a combined Heat and Power plant on-site. ...... An air intake tower for the ETAHE is located north of the building ..."
www.ecbcs.org/docs/Annex_44_SotAr_RBE_Vol_2A.pdf

"23-23 Mechanical Room for 14 MW Municipal Power Plant Featuring Two ... silencer 20 Crane 6 Exhaust silencer 21 Air intake tower 7 Radiator cooling plant 22 ..."
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0881734330...

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No problem. I have closed quite a few without grading.

B D Finch
France
Local time: 15:07
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 44

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks a lot, Barbara! Although in a lot of contexts this might well be the case, I was unable to find sufficient corroborative information to confirm this meaning in my particular document, so was reluctant to go with it. I ended up raising a question with the customer — to which, as usual, I've still had no answer as yet!

Asker: It's not helped by the fact that there I didn't find a single instance of this term on Google — as with several other terms in my document! I think we must have both been working on documents by the same author, eh? ;-)

Asker: Barbara, thanks once again for your contribution. I never like closing without grading, but in this instance, and in the absence of feedback from my customer, I don't feel confident enough to recommend this as a translation for the glossary. Obviously, there is no doubt that your suggested target term is of course perfectly valid; the real doubt is in the validity of the source term — and whether or not there is any correspondence between the 2! I hope you won't hold it against me.

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Reference comments

34 mins

Reference: Réseau de distribution d'air

Reference information:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JY2m5Td...

kashew
France
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 51

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