Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chamber or cylinder in which a substance is heated before being used or operated upon.
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- noun An
engineering device thatpreheats a material prior to some other process.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The absorber surface on the bottom of the preheater should be a dark color, and preferrably made of metal.
Chapter 7 1984
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All you need is a good filter and a preheater to keep the oil from solidifying.
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The remaining coke is dropped into the preheater for recycling with feedstock.
Cracking 2008
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The preheater-kiln system consumes 5 to 5.4 GJ/t of clinker (4).
2. Energy efficiency in the production of high-energy content building materials 1995
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Blended and homogenized raw meal is then fed to a suspension preheater of the counter type, where it is preheated and partially calcined by the hot gases from the kiln passing in counter current.
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The exit gases from the preheater are then passed through the dust-collection system and discharged into the atmosphere.
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Fig. 17: This dryer has a fairly small solar collector/preheater for the number of trays inside, out the clear sides would act to collect solar energy also, thus improving performance.
Chapter 8 1984
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Fig. 17: This dryer has a fairly small solar collector/preheater for the number of trays inside, but the clear sides would act to collect solar energy also, thus improving performance.
Chapter 7 1982
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Solar preheater - the solar preheater can be connected to an existing hot water storage tank to which it is impractical or inconvenient to attach collectors directly.
1. PRINCIPLES 1979
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The twins fiddled around, doing a little prelimiharv work on the preheater.
The Rolling Stones Heinlein, Robert A. 1952
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