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Meaning of "downcomer"
downcomer (noun): A term used in plumbing or industrial contexts to refer to a pipe or channel that carries liquid or gas downward
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- A pipe to conduct something downwards.
- A large external pipe in a water-tube boiler, carrying unheated water from the steam drum down to the water drum as part of the circulation path.
- A pipe for leading the hot gases from the top of a blast furnace downward to the regenerators, boilers, etc.
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Nuclear reactor downcomer flow deflector.
The water circulates upwards outside the downcomer.
The diameter of the downcomer is about four meters.
The spiral duct rotates around the downcomer.
This downcomer baffle arrangement is uniform on each tray of column.
Configurations and methods for ribbed downcomer wall.
The downcomer may be located in a central portion of the baffle.
The liquid is collected in a downcomer which guides it into a pipe.
Multiple downcomer trays have several distinguishing physical characteristics.
Two lateral pin openings are machined in the downcomer pipe.
Multiple downcomer trays are noted for their high capacity.
At both ends of such a row a segmental downcomer may be present.
A downcomer pipe then leads downwards from the outlet vessel.
The bed formed in the downcomer can be considered a fluidized bed.
A downcomer outlet should not discharge directly into a downcomer inlet.
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Conventional multiple downcomer trays have a short liquid flow path.
Distribution header downcomer.
The outlets of one downcomer are directly above the inlet of another.
The limited accessibility makes welding of replacement downcomer pipes difficult.
Preferably a downcomer opening is used having parallel smaller end sides.
At the downstream end of the tray is a weir which leads to a downcomer.
A downcomer outlet baffle is therein shown to control the discharge of liquid therefrom.
Preferably the slots will be pointed toward the closest downcomer.
The downcomer means do not extend downward to the next fractionation tray.
This liquid must then flow back through the downcomer.
A downcomer tube is downwardly and slidably received in an aperture of the first drawer.
The core spray piping generally includes vertical downcomer pipes.
The polymer particles coming from the downcomer are reintroduced in the riser of step b.
The distribution tray of the present invention has a small downcomer área.
Some points on the downcomer are further from the impact zones than others.
Allowing liquid to fall directly into the next lower downcomer is undesirable.
In this embodiment two sloped downcomer baffles cover the inlet of each downcomer.
This is the normally imperforated section located below an inlet downcomer opening.
The water is to be recirculated down a downcomer and then back up through the core.
This results in a net force pushing the froth towards the outlet downcomer.
This design of the downcomer opening ensures a maximum opening área on the tray.
This arrangement is preferred as it increases the rigidity of the downcomer means itself.
Use of downcomer beam to support adjacent cross flow trays within a mass transfer column.
The density difference between riser and downcomer causes an intensive liquid circulation.
This results in a net force pushing the froth towards the downcomer means.
The downcomer provides a connection between the rest chamber and the combustion chamber.
In this case ethylene can be reintroduced directly into the downcomer in different positions.
The downcomer has walls which are inclined towards each other in the downward direction.
Method and apparatus for repairing a core spray downcomer pipe in a nuclear reactor.
A multiple downcomer tray is distinguished from the conventional crossflow tray by several structural characteristics.
The present invention relates to the chemical process tower downcomer tray configuration.
The downcomers on vertically adjacent multiple downcomer trays are therefore perpendicular rather than parallel.
Liquid must be able to flow freely between the two sides of the downcomer.
The core spray line downcomer includes a lower elbow secured to a shroud penetration thermal sleeve.
The definition of the separate flow paths is completed by the sloped downcomer baffles.
