Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

abfahren

English translation:

to draw off

Added to glossary by Gerhard Wiesinger
Nov 6, 2010 21:46
13 yrs ago
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German term

abfahren

German to English Tech/Engineering Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-)
For a "Fermentationsanlage"
Context:
So wird das Substrat durchspült und darin vorhandene Biogasanteile gelangen insbesondere in das Volumen oberhalb des Substrates und können in bekannter Weise zur Biogasaufbereitung ***abgefahren*** werden.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +5 to draw off
3 +1 conveyed
4 to collect

Proposed translations

+5
2 hrs
Selected

to draw off

zur Biogasaufbereitung ***abgefahren*** werden
***drawn off*** for processing as biogas

Using a compressor to draw off gas from the top of the digester,...
http://www.gascompressors.co.uk/applications.shtml

The basic premise is that you draw off flammable gas from the landfill site.
http://www.estatesreview.com/news/home/magazine-articles/art...

The facility is set to take 18 months to build and is planned around a central heat chamber, which the company claims will produce no noxious emissions and draw off gas and oil as they vaporise.
http://www.letsrecycle.com/do/ecco.py/view_item?listid=37&li...

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Peer comment(s):

agree Nils Andersson
3 hrs
agree Wendy Streitparth
11 hrs
agree Bernhard Sulzer
15 hrs
agree Judith Shiozawa (X)
1 day 7 hrs
agree Steffen Walter
1 day 9 hrs
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+1
26 mins

conveyed

or perhaps "removed and conveyed" or "taken off and conveyed" to get the sense of "taken away to..."
Peer comment(s):

agree Susanne Rindlisbacher : transported?
1 hr
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7 hrs

to collect

In analogy to
Müllabfuhr garbage/trash collection
Müll abfahren to collect garabage/trash
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