waterwall

plural waterwalls

1. A panel on the side of a furnace consisting of multiple tubes that carry water.

   The use of such tempering air has diminished greatly with the shift from refractory to waterwall incinerator construction.

   2002, Walter R. Niessen, Combustion and Incineration Processes, →ISBN

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   One important industrial example involving this phenomenon is the circumferential cracking that occurs on the waterwall tubes of some supercritical coal-fired boilers, which are fired under low NOₓ combustion conditions.

   2007, George Y. Lai, High-Temperature Corrosion and Materials Applications, →ISBN, page 379

   The water is heated to a steam-water mixture in the waterwall tubes of the radiant section, and the wet steam rises to the upper drum.

   2011, Kenneth W. Ragland, Kenneth M. Bryden, Combustion Engineering, →ISBN, page 411

2. An architectural feature consisting of a wall down which water flows.

   One of the most dynamic features of Aria is a sweeping, all-embracing waterwall that creates a waterfall hush.

   2012, Time Out Las Vegas, →ISBN, page 105

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   For greater heights, an interrupted sheet, spouts, a waterwall, or a cascade will provide a display of equal or greater visibility while affording considerable energy savings, less splash, greater wind stability, and a sound quality more appropriate to confined or interior spaces.

   1988, Charles Ward Harris, Nicholas T. Dines, Time-saver Standards for Landscape Architecture

   The design of the waterwalls provides a dramatic environment for its intended purpose as an entrance zone, bridging together the inside of the building and the Commons and park outside.

   2006, Sandro Marpillero, James Carpenter: Environmental Refractions, →ISBN, page 138

   The facade of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum building includes a “waterwall” made of natural limestone veneer over a CMU block wall that allows surplus rainwater from the green roof to cascade down to provide water to small planting pockets; overflow water is stored in a cistern and recirculated with solar energy to irrigate the wall and provide makeup water for the created wetland in an outdoor classroom space.

   2011, Meg Calkins, The Sustainable Sites Handbook, →ISBN