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  • 1Shaft construction — concerns the building of vertical openings such as Raises and Shafts. Shafts are vertical openings used for supplying equipment, personnel, and support systems to the horizontal tunnel where the pipeline is installed. They can be temporary or… …

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  • 2Shaft mining — Abandoned mine shafts in Marl, Germany. A …

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  • 3shaft — shaftless, adj. shaftlike, adj. /shaft, shahft/, n. 1. a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows. 2. something directed or barbed as in sharp attack: shafts of sarcasm. 3. a ray or beam: a shaft of sunlight.… …

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  • 4shaft — shaft1 [ ʃæft ] noun count ** ▸ 1 main part of something long ▸ 2 long narrow passage ▸ 3 thin line of light ▸ 4 clever remark ▸ 5 arrow ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) the main part of something long and thin, not including the end: the shaft of an arrow the… …

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  • 5shaft — I UK [ʃɑːft] / US [ʃæft] noun [countable] Word forms shaft : singular shaft plural shafts ** 1) the main part of something long and thin, not including the end the shaft of an arrow a) the handle of a tool b) a metal bar in an engine that causes… …

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  • 6shaft — I. noun (plural shafts) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sceaft; akin to Old High German scaft shaft, Latin scapus shaft, stalk, Greek skēptesthai to prop oneself, lean Date: before 12th century 1. a. (1) the long handle of a spear or… …

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  • 7surface — The outer part of any solid. SYN: face (2) [TA], facies (2) [TA]. [F. fr. L. superficius, see superficial] acromial articular s. of clavicle SYN: acromial facet of clavicle. anterior s. [TA] the s. of a …

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  • 8shaft — [[t]ʃæft, ʃɑft[/t]] n. 1) a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances or arrows 2) something directed at someone or something in sharp attack: shafts of sarcasm[/ex] 3) a ray or beam 4) a long handle serving to balance or… …

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  • 9Dynamic scraped surface heat exchangers — Introduction The most important technologies for indirect heat transfer use tubes (shell and tube exchangers) or flat surfaces (plate exchangers). Their goal is to exchange the maximum amount of heat per unit area by generating as much turbulence …

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  • 10Dynamic scraped surface heat exchanger — The dynamic scraped surface heat exchanger (DSSHE) was designed to face some problems found in other types of heat exchangers. They increase heat transfer by: removing the fouling layers, increasing turbulence in case of high viscosity flow,… …

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