Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any tube or passage for leading solids or fluids downward.
- noun A downtake.
- noun The descending element of a sectional boiler, through which the cooler or heavier water descends in the process of circulation.
- noun In a blast-furnace for smelting iron from the ore, a large pipe which takes combustible gas from the top of the furnace-shaft and brings it down to boilers, stoves, engines, etc., in which it is burned as a source of heat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Iron Manuf.) A pipe for leading the hot gases from the top of a blast furnace downward to the regenerators, boilers, etc.
- noun (Steam Engin.) In some water-tube boilers, a tube larger in diameter than the water tubes to conduct the water from each top drum to a bottom drum, thus completing the circulation.
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Examples
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The gases produced by the combustion of the fuel and the reduction of the ore, together with the nitrogen of the air forced in through the tuyers, escape through pipes D, called downcomer pipes, which leave the furnace near the top.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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Solar collector tube, steam separator, riser and downcomer tubes, air well, siphon tubes, and immersion heater together make up a closed circuit, partly filled with water.
Chapter 8 1990
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A siphon tube evacuates the condensate via the downcomer back to the collector tube.
Chapter 8 1990
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I dreaded to be found eating, alone in that vast room, by the first downcomer.
Seven Men Max Beerbohm 1914
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This video shows the steel mill blast furnace downcomer piping to the dust collector/pot.
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This video shows the steel mill blast furnace downcomer piping to the dust collector/pot.
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