blowdown

Meanings

Plural: blowdowns

Noun

• The removal of liquid and solid hydrocarbons from a refinery vessel by the use of pressure.
• Cooling fluid discharged from a plant at the end of its cycle.
• Uprooting, overtopping, or bole breakage of trees by the wind; windthrow and windsnap.
• The action of aerodynamic forces to tend to cause a deflected control surface to return to its neutral position, or prevent the surface from deflecting past a certain point.
• An instance of blowing down with compressed air.

Related Words

blowback, blowoff