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envolvente

English translation: wrap around

13:40 Sep 16, 2018
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Electronics / Elect Eng / turbine
Portuguese term or phrase: envolvente
...foi colocado no piso do envolvente da turbina, que possui um revestimento de alcatrão de hulha.
Not sure if it would be "casing", "housing", "shrouding"...or something else...
Colin Bowles
Brazil
Local time: 19:34
English translation:wrap around
Explanation:
Sugiro que use o termo wrap around, conforme fonte citada que usa o presente termo.
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Lino Comelli Junior
Brazil
Local time: 19:34
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1casing
liz askew
4wrap around
Lino Comelli Junior
3covering
Nick Taylor
3enclosure
Clauwolf


  

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51 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
wrap around


Explanation:
Sugiro que use o termo wrap around, conforme fonte citada que usa o presente termo.

Example sentence(s):
  • it was placed in the wrap around floor of the turbine

    https://www.citylab.com/design/2015/02/these-high-end-apartments-wrap-around-the-base-of-wind-turbines/385328/
Lino Comelli Junior
Brazil
Local time: 19:34
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
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Asker: Tks.

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casing


Explanation:
www.marineengineering.org.uk/page38.html
LP Turbine Casing. To reduce windage losses the astern turbine exhausts in the same direction as the LP turbine. The Astern casing is located by crossed bars ...
Turbine Casing and Major Stationary Components
https://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/...turbines...and.....
Casing Design; Steam Admission Sections; Steam Turbine Diaphragms and ... for compressors and pumps, as well as cogeneration turbine-generator sets, can ...
High pressure casings | The steam turbine - Modern Energetics
mda139.net/steamturbine/high-pressure-casings.html
Most modern turbines, with steam pressures over 100 bar and ratings greater than 100 MW, have HP casings of double-shell design (Figs 1.92 and 1.93).

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:34
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Martin Riordan
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covering


Explanation:
covering

Nick Taylor
Local time: 23:34
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 68
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enclosure


Explanation:
:) Used for turbines

Clauwolf
Local time: 19:34
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 66
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