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  2. Pumping station - Wikipedia

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    A pumping station is an integral part of a pumped-storage hydroelectricity installation. Pumping stations are designed to move water or sewage from one location to another, overcoming gravitational challenges, and are essential for maintaining navigable canal levels, supplying water, and managing sewage and floodwaters. In canal systems ...

  3. Federal Bridge Gross Weight Formula - Wikipedia

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    The Federal-Aid Highway Act Amendments of 1974 established the bridge formula as law, along with the gross weight limit of 80,000 pounds (36,000 kg). Current applications of the formula allow for up to 7 axles and 86 feet or more length between axle sets, and a maximum load of 105,500 lbs. [ 2 ]

  4. Transfer station (waste management) - Wikipedia

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    A transfer station, or resource recovery centre, is a building or processing site for the temporary deposition, consolidation and aggregation of waste. [1] [2] Transfer stations vary significantly in size and function. Some transfer stations allow residents and businesses to drop off small loads of waste and recycling, and may perform some ...

  5. Piping and instrumentation diagram - Wikipedia

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    Piping and instrumentation diagram of pump with storage tank. Symbols according to EN ISO 10628 and EN 62424. A more complex example of a P&ID. A piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) is defined as follows: A diagram which shows the interconnection of process equipment and the instrumentation used to control the process.

  6. Cross-platform interchange - Wikipedia

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    Akasaka-mitsuke station track diagram, showing how cross-platform transfer works. In the Tokyo Metro, Akasaka-mitsuke Station provides cross-platform transfer between Ginza Line and Marunouchi Line. At Omotesandō Station, transfer between Ginza Line and Hanzōmon Line can be done on its two island platforms at the same level.

  7. Edmonston Pumping Plant - Wikipedia

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    Edmonston Pumping Plant is a pumping station near the south end of the California Aqueduct, which is the principal feature of the California State Water Project. It lifts water 1,926 feet (600 m) to cross the Tehachapi Mountains where it splits into the west and east branches of the California Aqueduct serving Southern California.

  8. GPM - Wikipedia

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    GPM may refer to: GPM (software), software providing support for mouse devices in Linux virtual consoles; Graphical path method, a mathematically based algorithm used in project management; Gallons per minute, a unit of volumetric flow rate; Gallons per mile, a unit of fuel efficiency; Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi district, Chhattisgarh, India

  9. Claude "Bud" Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant - Wikipedia

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    [40] [41] This is equivalent to 43 million gallons per day (mgd), or about 86% of the plant's output. The cost of water from the plant will be $100 to $200 more per acre-foot than recycled water (approximately 0.045 cents per gallon), $1,000 to $1,100 more than reservoir water (approx. 0.32 cents per gallon), but $100 to $200 less than ...