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curvas de trabajo de las bombas

English translation: pump (performance) curves

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Spanish term or phrase:curvas de trabajo de las bombas
English translation:pump (performance) curves
Entered by: Jack Ward

10:20 Dec 5, 2012
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Environment & Ecology
Spanish term or phrase: curvas de trabajo de las bombas
Hi everyone,

This appears in the description of an ecodesign project, carried out in a Spanish firm with the help of an Industrial Engineering student:

Proyecto:

El proyecto estuvo relacionado con la aplicación práctica de la metodología de ecodiseño publicada por xxx a la máquina de electroerosión por penetración, (xxx). Entre otras actuaciones, se desarrollaron ideas de mejora encaminadas a minimizar el impacto de la fase de uso estudiando las ***curvas de trabajo de las bombas*** y sobredimensionamientos de estos equipos con el objetivo de determinar la viabilidad real de sustitución por otros equipos de menor consumo.


Does anyone have any ideas as to how to translate this?

Best regards,

Jack
Jack Ward
pump (performance) curves
Explanation:
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DLyons
Ireland
Local time: 23:31
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Thanks everyone!
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3 +3pump (performance) curves
DLyons
3 +1work curves of the pumps
Simon Bruni


  

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pump (performance) curves


Explanation:
See link.


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump#Laraib_Pumping_power
DLyons
Ireland
Local time: 23:31
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 28
Grading comment
Thanks everyone!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Charles Davis: Or "performance curves of/for the pumps" would do too, I suppose.
3 mins
  -> Thanks Charles
agree  liz askew: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:aWnzhPagRRQJ:www....
18 mins
  -> Thanks Liz
agree  MPGS: :)
5 hrs
  -> Thanks MPGS.
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
work curves of the pumps


Explanation:
I'm assuming it refers to this:

Definition of WORK CURVE

: a graphic record of the amount done in each successive part of a prolonged period of work


    Reference: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work%20curve
Simon Bruni
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:31
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 78

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Neil Ashby: I tend to agree, 'work' is a physical property (units - J) that measures a force applied to a body over a distance of displacement. (W = Fd). To compare pumps a quantifiable and tangible physical property would be used - "the pumps' work curves"
51 mins
  -> Many thanks, Neil, for a better explanation that I ever could have provided
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