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  2. Water jacket furnace (metallurgy) - Wikipedia

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    The 'water jacket' blast furnace design for non-ferrous smelting arose in North America, during the 1870s, [3] and an alternative name for it, in Australia, was 'American water jacket furnace'. [4] The design evolved from earlier German cupola furnace designs, with the distinguishing innovation being a well-controlled cooling of the furnace shell.

  3. Fairbanks Morse 38 8-1/8 diesel engine - Wikipedia

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    Fairbanks Morse Opposed Piston liner and water jacket. The 38 8-1/8 engines are inline diesel engines , with combustion occurring between two opposed pistons within a single cylinder liner. The engine has a bore of 8-1/8 inches (206.4 mm), a stroke of 10 inches (254.0 mm) for each piston, and the cylinder height is 38 inches (970 mm).

  4. AguaClara - Wikipedia

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    Marcala The Marcala plant began in the Fall of 2007 and was completed in June 2008. The plant was upgraded in May 2011 to a flow rate of 3200 LPM. Cuatro Comunidades In the Fall of 2008, the AguaClara team designed a water treatment plant with shallower tanks that doesn't need an elevated platform for the plant operator. The full scale pilot ...

  5. Rotating biological contactor - Wikipedia

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    The RBC process allows the wastewater to come in contact with a biological film in order to remove pollutants in the wastewater before discharge of the treated wastewater to the environment, usually a body of water (river, lake or ocean). A rotating biological contactor is a type of secondary (biological) treatment process.

  6. Plant operator - Wikipedia

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    A plant operator is an employee who supervises the operation of an industrial plant. The term is usually applied to workers employed in utilities , wastewater treatment plants , power plants or chemical plants such as gas extraction facilities , petrochemical or oil refineries .

  7. Industrial water treatment - Wikipedia

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    Advancements in water treatment technology have affected all areas of industrial water treatment. Although mechanical filtration, such as reverse osmosis , is widely employed to filter contaminants, other technologies including the use of ozone generators, wastewater evaporation, electrodeionization and bioremediation are also able to address ...

  8. Water jacket - Wikipedia

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    Water jackets were used to cool the barrels of machine guns until several years after the First World War, but modern machine guns are air-cooled to conserve weight and hence increase portability. In a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine , the water jacket is a series of holes either cast or bored through the main engine block and ...

  9. Water treatment - Wikipedia

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    Dalecarlia Water Treatment Plant, Washington, D.C. Water treatment is any process that improves the quality of water to make it appropriate for a specific end-use. The end use may be drinking, industrial water supply, irrigation, river flow maintenance, water recreation or many other uses, including being safely returned to the environment.