Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

hog fuel

Spanish translation:

combustible en astillas/desmenuzado

Added to glossary by Luciano Giusti
Nov 11, 2009 02:32
14 yrs ago
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English term

hog fuel

English to Spanish Other Energy / Power Generation Biomass
Would appreciate assistance from colleagues familiar with bioenergy terms in Spanish. The definition is:

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–noun wood chips or shavings, residue from sawmills, etc., used for fuel, landfill, animal feed, and surfacing paths and running tracks.

The context: "total cost of hog fuel with transporting".

TIA!

Elizabeth
Change log

Nov 14, 2009 21:30: Luciano Giusti changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/566597">Elizabeth Medina's</a> old entry - "hog fuel"" to ""combustible en astillas/desmenuzado""

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combustible en astillas/desmenuzado

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http://chile-renovables.blogspot.com/2008_06_07_archive.html

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http://www.biofuelsb2b.com/useful_info.php?page=Gloss

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"Etymology: possibly from a nickname of the grinding machine used to create it, a "hog." The word for chopped (hacked) in Norwegian is hogge (hogde past tense). chopped wood has been hogde. Hogde fuel likely morphed into hog fuel."
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hog_fuel

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http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/003/y0909E/Glossary.pdf
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agree margaret caulfield
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agree Oscar Knoblauch
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combustible de residuos de la madera (hog fuel)

¡Ojalá te sea de utilidad!

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combustible en astillas, Combustible de madera desmenuzada

According to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hog_fuel: Hog fuel is possibly from a nickname of the grinding machine used to create it, a "hog." The word for chopped (hacked) in Norwegian is hogge (hogde past tense). chopped wood has been hogde. Hogde fuel likely morphed into hog fuel.

combustible en astillas, Combustible de madera desmenuzada
tengo un glossary bueno que te lo puedo enviar.
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