Blowdown

Quick meaning: Blowdown is a noun meaning (chemical engineering) The removal of liquid and solid hydrocarbons from a refinery vessel by the use of pressure.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (industrial engineering) Cooling fluid discharged from a plant at the end of its cycle.
2. (forestry) Uprooting, overtopping, or bole breakage of trees by the wind; windthrow and windsnap.
3. (manufacturing, informal) An instance of blowing down with compressed air.
4. (aviation) The action of aerodynamic forces to tend to cause a deflected control surface to return to its neutral position, or prevent the surface from deflecting past a certain point.

Example Sentences

Give these parts a blowdown with your air hose before you put them in the ultrasonic cleaning tank.

At higher airspeeds, the 737's maximum rudder deflection is limited by blowdown, helping to prevent flight-control inputs from overstressing the aircraft's vertical stabilizer.

According to Boeing, these movements were consistent with the effects of blowdown on those surfaces as documented during flight tests. However, the outboard aileron split recorded by the FDR after about 0150:27, which is discussed later in this section, was not consistent with the flight test data.

Word Forms

• blowdowns

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include windthrow, windfall, storm, hurricane, blowout, visbreaking.

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