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система автоматики аварийных дизелей

English translation: Automated Control System of Emergency Diesel Generators

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Russian term or phrase:система автоматики аварийных дизелей
English translation:Automated Control System of Emergency Diesel Generators
Entered by: Susan Welsh

11:58 Jun 28, 2012
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation / nuclear power
Russian term or phrase: система автоматики аварийных дизелей
This is from a description by Sergei Kirienko of what distinguishes the two units at Fukushima (#5 and 6) that emerged intact from the tsunami:

...они расположены всего на два-три метра выше уровня моря, и у них **система автоматики аварийных дизелей** находится не в подвальном помещении **под дизелями, а на крыше, над дизелями**.... Два метра над уровнем моря и автоматика, поднятая над аварийным дизелем.

I am assuming that дизель here means "diesel generator," but then I am left with the question of how the "diesels" can be "below the diesels" or "above the diesels." Also the word автоматика is unclear to me: does it mean the automatic controls that start the diesel generator in case of emergency?

Thanks!
Susan Welsh
United States
Local time: 22:56
Automated (Control) System of Emergency Diesel Generators
Explanation:
Positioning of DGs automations is quite prudent if the controls are above DGs but not underneath.
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Levis
Local time: 05:56
Grading comment
Thanks! (I still don't see what good it does to have the controls on the roof if the generators are in the flooded basement, but I'll let the engineers figure that one out.)
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5 +1Automated (Control) System of Emergency Diesel Generators
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Automated (Control) System of Emergency Diesel Generators


Explanation:
Positioning of DGs automations is quite prudent if the controls are above DGs but not underneath.



    Reference: http://www.vtt.fi/inf/pdf/workingpapers/2010/W156.pdf
Levis
Local time: 05:56
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
Thanks! (I still don't see what good it does to have the controls on the roof if the generators are in the flooded basement, but I'll let the engineers figure that one out.)
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks, I forgot to look at your PDF. This does make sense.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  TechLawDC: It is the control that is located above or below the diesel. It does not matter whether the "diesel" is an engine or a generator, in this context.
18 mins
  -> Thank you! ;-)
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