Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

nozzle beam

French translation:

rampe de buses

Added to glossary by Tony M
Apr 20, 2018 20:00
6 yrs ago
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English term

nozzle beam

Non-PRO English to French Tech/Engineering Mechanics / Mech Engineering condenseur à air
Dans un texte que je corrige, la traductrice a mis "buse à faisceau". N'est-ce pas plutôt faisceau à buses ? La phrase suivante le confirmerait : "The nozzle beam consists of two rows with 14 pcs. nozzles."
On parle d'un condenseur à air et je trouve sur internet l'expression "faisceau tubulaire", pourrait-il s'agir de cela ?
Merci d'avance aux techniciens (dont je ne suis pas !)
Proposed translations (French)
2 rampe de buses
3 -1 faisceau de buses
Change log

Apr 20, 2018 20:05: Jean-Christophe Vieillard changed "Language pair" from "German to French" to "English to French" , "Field (write-in)" from "(none)" to "condenseur à air"

Apr 22, 2018 20:36: Tony M Created KOG entry

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

PRO (2): Tony M, Schtroumpf

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Discussion

Isabelle Cluzel (asker) Apr 22, 2018:
Merci à tous
Isabelle Cluzel (asker) Apr 22, 2018:
Thanks for your valuable insights, Tony! It is a biomass plant (https://aet-biomass.fr/fr-FR/Accueil/Références/Centrales-à-... if it is of any help...
HERBET Abel Apr 21, 2018:
Oui pour 'rampes'
Ce sont elles qui créent Le faisceau
Tony M Apr 20, 2018:
@ Asker Yes, I'm afraid in this instance the translator just got it horribly wrong — so many people forget about the all-too-common word order inversion!

However, I don't think this is 'beam' in the sense of a 'bundle' or 'faisceau' — from the context, I think it is the other sense of 'beam' = some kind of 'poutre' or 'barre'.

Here, as it seems to be intended to hold los of nozzles (14 × 2 rows), I
'd have thought this is going to be more some kind of 'rampe'...

If you Google 'rampe à buses', you find quite a few examples, with varying translations including 'spray boom' — the nozzles are for spraying (in that case, liquid), and 'boom' (in a nautical context, 'bôme') is just another word for a kind of 'bar' or 'beam'.

Proposed translations

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rampe de buses

Just a hunch, subject to confirmation by research!

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Note added at 1 day 3 mins (2018-04-21 20:04:27 GMT)
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I am convinced that 'beam' here has the sense of 'poutre' etc., and can be likened to 'boom' (often found in "spray" contexts) — and one can readily imagine that a hollow 'beam' with nozzles mounted on it might be used to spray liquid or, as here, air.
Of course, as ever, more context would be incredibly useful to know what sort of plant this is actually being used on, and what its function is?

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Note added at 2 days 35 mins (2018-04-22 20:36:16 GMT) Post-grading
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OK, so it sounds like it might be something for e.g. aeration? Certainly not inconsistent with my suggestion then. Perhaps 'beam' because it may have to be quite sturdy! More than just a sort of pipe...
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faisceau de buses

une suggestion...
Peer comment(s):

disagree Tony M : that would be the wrong sense of 'beam' here.
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