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Air Scour

Portuguese translation: purificação/desinfecção do ar

20:58 Sep 11, 2011
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-) / Air Scour
English term or phrase: Air Scour
This procedure applies to start up of the newly installed system, after the unit has been shut down, and after a "kill" of the culture required an air scrour and a pump out.
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Portuguese translation:purificação/desinfecção do ar
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Adriana Martins Vieira Querino
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3 +3purificação/desinfecção do ar
Adriana Martins Vieira Querino
4limpeza/tratamento com ar
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air scour
purificação/desinfecção do ar


Explanation:
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Adriana Martins Vieira Querino
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:56
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Native speaker of: Portuguese
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air scour
limpeza/tratamento com ar


Explanation:
Processo (ver Amirtharajah, fundamentals and theory of air scour -1985) que consiste em utilizar o ar para a lavagem de meios filtrantes no processo de tratamento de água.

Example sentence(s):
  • Air scour systems, on the otherhand, function by pumping air through the bottom of the filter prior to backwash until just before the washwater begins to overflow into the washwater troughs.

    Reference: http://ascelibrary.org/eeo/resource/1/joeedu/v110/i3/p573_s1...
Robert Banvolgyi
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Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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