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What is a blowdown?

What is a blowdown? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chemical engineering) The removal of liquid and solid hydrocarbons from a refinery vessel by the use of pressure
  2. (industrial engineering) Cooling fluid discharged from a plant at the end of its cycle.
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But the gash makes Luna more vulnerable to blowdown because redwoods have shallow roots.
We reached the section of the trail where the bikes had to be carried due to copious amounts of blowdown.
A blazing mass of tops, twisted in a blowdown, fronted them, and they were forced to make a long detour.
A freak straight-line windstorm caused a massive blowdown of trees in the area in 1999, and the profusion of fallen timber raised fears of a catastrophic firestorm.
In 1985 a large section was affected by another large blowdown.
Deposition can be avoided by increasing liquid blowdown rate.

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