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2. Blowout preventer - Wikipedia

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   On July 10, 2010, BP began operations to install a sealing cap, also known as a capping stack, atop the failed blowout preventer stack. Based on BP's video feeds of the operation the sealing cap assembly, called Top Hat 10, included a stack of three blind shear ram BOPs manufactured by Hydril (a GE Oil & Gas company), one of Cameron's chief ...

3. Drain-waste-vent system - Wikipedia

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   A sewer pipe is normally at neutral air pressure compared to the surrounding atmosphere.When a column of waste water flows through a pipe, it compresses air ahead of it in the system, creating a positive pressure that must be released so it does not push back on the waste stream and downstream traps, slow drainage, and induce potential clogs.

4. Piping and plumbing fitting - Wikipedia

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   A toilet is the main connection, with the option of a right or left-hand outlet to the 3" inlet with a choice of 1-1/2" or 2" in size. It is used to keep stack-vented fixtures high to the joist space and thus conserves the headroom in a basement.

5. Exploded-view drawing - Wikipedia

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   An exploded-view drawing is a diagram, picture, schematic or technical drawing of an object, that shows the relationship or order of assembly of various parts. [1]It shows the components of an object slightly separated by distance, or suspended in surrounding space in the case of a three-dimensional exploded diagram.

6. Chimney (locomotive) - Wikipedia

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   Great Western locomotives with their distinctive copper-rimmed chimneys The new-build steam locomotive Leviathan, a 4-4-0 with a large spark-arresting chimney. The chimney (smokestack or stack in American and Canadian English) is the part of a steam locomotive through which smoke leaves the boiler.

7. Smudge pot - Wikipedia

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   The return-stack heater was developed by the University of California and became commercially available about 1940. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Filler caps have a three- or four-hole flue control. The stem into the pot usually has a piece of oil-soaked wood ("down-draft tube and wick") [ 10 ] secured inside the neck to aid in lighting the pot.