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chasse

English translation: pigging

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French term or phrase:chasse
English translation:pigging
Entered by: John Fossey

16:19 Nov 9, 2018
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Petroleum Eng/Sci
French term or phrase: chasse
This appears in some terms and conditions for a petroleum product pipeline network. I really have no idea what it means. Can anybody shed any light?

Par ailleurs, les contraintes de l'exploitation peuvent amener *company* à expédier ou à livrer des quantités inférieures aux volumes minima indiqués en annexe 4, tel est le cas notamment des bouchons de carburéacteur et des chasses.

Merci
Alison Wedley
France
Local time: 08:06
pigging
Explanation:
Pipelines are maintained using an operation called "pigging", which uses "pigs" that travel through the pipeline. A series of pigs with a cleaning fluid moves down the pipeline to separate deliveries of different products. This train of pigs and fluid takes up a certain amount of space which displaces the total volume of product delivered.

For a discussion on pigging see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigging

A further discussion along with some French terms is at http://www.ptac.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Final-Report-...



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John Fossey
Canada
Local time: 02:06
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4 +2pigging
John Fossey
2flushes
Andrew Bramhall


  

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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
flushes


Explanation:
'flush', as in' chasses d'eau', might fit the context, but only a guess, I'm afraid

Andrew Bramhall
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:06
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
pigging


Explanation:
Pipelines are maintained using an operation called "pigging", which uses "pigs" that travel through the pipeline. A series of pigs with a cleaning fluid moves down the pipeline to separate deliveries of different products. This train of pigs and fluid takes up a certain amount of space which displaces the total volume of product delivered.

For a discussion on pigging see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigging

A further discussion along with some French terms is at http://www.ptac.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Final-Report-...



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Note added at 27 mins (2018-11-09 16:47:23 GMT)
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Search the latter document for the terms "chasse" and "pig"

John Fossey
Canada
Local time: 02:06
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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Asker: Thank you John. :)


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Andrew Bramhall: Certainly sounds plausible;
12 mins
agree  mchd
12 mins
agree  Johannes Gleim: ON "chasse" les pistons racleurs pour nettoyer les oléoducs. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piston_racleur Je le connais sous le nom « Molch » en allemand.
1 day 21 hrs
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