spraybar

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/ˈspreɪ ˌbɑː(ɹ)/

noun

A device consisting of a bar or pipe with multiple openings or nozzles, designed to distribute a fluid, such as water, insecticide, or fuel, over a specific area or surface.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounspraybar (plural spraybars)

plural spraybars · alternative spray bar

  1. A device consisting of a bar or pipe with multiple openings or nozzles, designed to distribute a fluid, such as water, insecticide, or fuel, over a specific area or surface.

    The spraybar of the Enresco rig should be completely redesigned with special attention devoted to nozzle size and spacing.

    1980 Feb, Y.A. Demirjian, D.R. Kendrick, M.L. Smith, T.R. Westman, MUSKEGON COUNTY WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: Progress Report 1968 through 1975, Muskegon, Michigan 49442: Muskegon County Department of Public Works, page 54
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    If this valve is open to the spraybar, the bitumen passes into the spraybar, the bitumen passes into the spraybar is prayed out through the nozzle into the pugmill.

    1942, Mobile Pugmill Mixing Plant (War Department; TMS5-1280), Barber-Greene Company, page 67

    When this was discovered, the spraybar system was abandoned and cyclones were introduced to produce the required outer shell of coarse pervious material.

    2009 November 16, Geoffrey E. Blight, Geotechnical Engineering for Mine Waste Storage Facilities, CRC Press, pages 9-136

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