Preslug
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Preslug is a noun meaning (nuclear engineering) To compress (fuel) into pellets before use.
Meaning
(nuclear engineering) To compress (fuel) into pellets before use.
More Meanings
- To preprint on a form with automatically-generated individual identifying information.
- (journalism) To give a title, header, or catchline before writing the piece.
- (chemical engineering) A substance injected into water contaminated with oil to facilitate the subsequent process of recovering the oil from the water.
Example Sentences
In the first preslug, the foaming concentration was 1.5% and the polymer was 1800ppm.
A preslug of brine solution is often used to condition the reservoir by displacing the reservoir brine.
Usually preslugs were injected to realize optimum salinity in the reservoir and also to control cation exchange.
Los Alamos concluded that the use of preslugged material is beneficial, 10 tsi is the optimum pressing pressure, and binders are not necessary.
Word Forms
- preslugs
- preslugging
- preslugged
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include desalter, sludge, desilter, overflush, osmopriming, slickwater.
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