Glossary

Adsorption

Adsorption is the accumulation of atoms or molecules on the surface of a material. This process creates a film of the adsorbate (the molecules or atoms being accumulated) on the adsorbent's surface.
It is a removal process where certain particles are bound to an adsorbent particle surface by either chemical or physical attraction.
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Air fins

Alumina

Amphoteric oxide of aluminium.
The major uses of specialty aluminium oxides are in refractories, ceramics, and polishing and abrasive applications.
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API 610

Norm API 610 determines the centrifugal pumps' characteristics.

API 661

API 662

ASTM A106 GrB

Type of steel.

Blower

Canopy

Particular type of cover apt to reduce the noise provoked by systems and compressors.

Carbon steel (mild steel)

Mild steel is the most corrosive and therefore the least expensive of the three most commonly perforated metals.
It is manufactured in either sheet or coil form by roller flattening it to the desired thickness either initially whilst the steel is still hot or again after it has cooled.
[Source: RMIG]

Chemical washing

Chiller

The chillers are water cooling groups and they are subdivided in two typologies, to air or water.
Such definition is given based on the fluid used for the cooling of the condenser.

Circulation pumps

CMS (molecular sieves)

Molecular sieves are crystalline metallic aluminum silicates synthetically obtained from zeolite compounds.
They have unique characteristics: they absorb molecules based on the polarity difference due to electrostatic attraction and they have a uniform porous structure enabling molecules to beseparated by size.
[Source: Propack]

Coalescence

When small drops of water joins forming more and more great drops.

Compressed air

Compressed air is air which is kept under a certain pressure, usually greater than that of the atmosphere.
It can be used in or for pneumatics, vehicular transportation, scuba diving, cooling, gas dusters, air brake systems, compressed air breathers, paintball ammunition propulsion and airsoft ammunition propulsion.
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Dew point

The dew point is the temperature to which a given parcel of air must be cooled, at constant barometric pressure, for water vapor to condense into water.
The dew point is a saturation point. When the dew point temperature falls below freezing it is often called the frost point, as the water vapor no longer creates dew but instead creates frost or hoarfrost by deposition.
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Dryer

Flanged filter

Filters of medium-large dimensions with flanged connections, to their inside they can contain from 1 to 32 leaking cartridges.
They are equipped of grafts in order to facilitate the reciprocation of the cartridges.

Fire & gas detection

It is an advanced system that reveals the fire presence and gas in the lead of cables and supply to the extinction automatic of them.

Hastelloy

Type of steel much resistant to the corrosion.

Heat exchanger

A heat exchanger is a device built for efficient heat transfer from one medium to another. The media may be separated by a solid wall, so that they never mix, or they may be in direct contact. They are widely used in space heating, refrigeration, air conditioning, power plants, chemical plants, petrochemical plants, petroleum refineries, and natural gas processing.
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Heat of compression

Heat of compression dryers have a closed circuit and base their functioning principle on the physical process of the air’s temperature increase during the compression. The energy gained in this way is used by the system for the dessicant material regeneration.
This drying process’ main advantage is the external power’s absence.

Heater

Heatless regeneration

Hot regeneration

ISO 13706

Norm about the oil, petrochemical, natural gas and air-cooled heat exchangers.

ISO 13709

Norm about valves, valves to globe and valves to interception globe and containment in steel.

Metallic yarn

Nitrogen

Elemental nitrogen is a colorless, odorless, tasteless and mostly inert diatomic gas at standard conditions, constituting 78% by volume of Earth's atmosphere. Many industrially important compounds, such as ammonia, nitric acid, organic nitrates (propellants and explosives), and cyanides, contain nitrogen.
Nitrogen gas has a wide variety of applications, including serving as an inert replacement for air where oxidation is undesirable:. [Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]

PHE (Plate heat exchangers)

A plate heat exchanger is a type of heat exchanger that uses metal plates to transfer heat between two fluids. This has a major advantage over a conventional heat exchanger in that the fluids are exposed to a much larger surface area because the fluids spread out over the plates.
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PLC

A programmable logic controller (PLC) is a digital computer used for automation of electromechanical processes, such as control of machinery on factory assembly lines, amusement rides, or lighting fixtures. PLCs are used in many industries and machines, such as packaging and semiconductor machines.
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PVC

PVC is the third most widely used thermoplastic polymer.
As a building material, PVC is cheap, durable, and easy to assemble. It can be made softer and more flexible by the addition of plasticizers, the most widely-used being phthalates. In this form, it is used in clothing and upholstery, and to make flexible hoses and tubing, flooring, to roofing membranes, and electrical cable insulation.
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Purge air

Separator

Shell and tube heat exchanger

It is the most common type of heat exchanger in oil refineries and other large chemical processes, and is suited for higher-pressure applications.
As its name implies, this type of heat exchanger consists of a shell (a large pressure vessel) with a bundle of tubes inside it. One fluid runs through the tubes, and another fluid flows over the tubes (through the shell) to transfer heat between the two fluids.
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Silencer

Industrial silencers are made out of external metallic cases containing labyrinths and resonant cavities.

Skid

Stainless steel

stainless steel, also known as inox steel or inox, is defined as a steel alloy with a minimum of 11% chromium content by mass. Stainless steel does not stain, corrode, or rust as easily as ordinary steel .
Stainless steels have sufficient amounts of chromium present so that a passive film of chromium oxide forms which prevents further surface corrosion and blocks corrosion from spreading into the metal's internal structure.
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Threaded filter

Filters of small-medium dimensions with threaded connections, easy adaptable on various types of machinery.
To their inside they can contain 1 leaking cartridge.

Titanium

Titanium has a low density and is a strong, lustrous, corrosion-resistant (including sea water, aqua regia and chlorine) transition metal with a silver color.
Titanium can be alloyed with iron, aluminium, vanadium, molybdenum, among other elements, to produce strong lightweight alloys for aerospace (jet engines, missiles, and spacecraft), military, industrial process (chemicals and petro-chemicals, desalination plants, pulp, and paper), automotive, agri-food, medical prostheses, orthopedic implants, dental and endodontic instruments and files, dental implants, sporting goods, jewellery, mobile phones, and other applications.
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TP 316

A type of stainless steel.

Vessel

A pressure vessel is a closed container designed to hold gases or liquids at a pressure substantially different from the ambient pressure.
The pressure differential is potentially dangerous and many fatal accidents have occurred in the history of their development and operation. Consequently, their design, manufacture, and operation are regulated by engineering authorities backed up by laws. For these reasons, the definition of a pressure vessel varies from country to country, but involves parameters such as maximum safe operating pressure and temperature.
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