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Pressurisation ductwork is a p****ive fire
protection system. It is used to
supply fresh air to any area of refuge,
designated emergency evacuation or egress...
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Pressurization or
pressurisation is the
application of
pressure in a
given situation or environment.
Industrial equipment is
often maintained at pressures...
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including open buckets,
flasks with loose-****ing stoppers, and self-
pressurising tanks. All
dewars have
walls constructed from two or more layers, with...
- were
required to move
about the cabin. The
first bomber built with a
pressurised cabin for high
altitude use was the
Vickers Wellington Mark VI in 1941...
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commercial setting. (More on that in the
article on the
CANDU reactor itself)
Pressurised heavy-water
reactors do have some drawbacks.
Heavy water generally costs...
- A
pressurized water reactor (PWR) is a type of light-water
nuclear reactor. PWRs
constitute the
large majority of the world's
nuclear power plants (with...
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Overpressure (or
blast overpressure) is the
pressure caused by a
shock wave over and
above normal atmospheric pressure. The
shock wave may be
caused by...
- fume
event occurs when
bleed air used for
cabin pressurisation and air
conditioning in a
pressurised aircraft is
contaminated by
fluids such as engine...
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Superheated water is
liquid water under pressure at
temperatures between the
usual boiling point, 100 °C (212 °F) and the
critical temperature, 374 °C...
- a
pressurised aircraft cabin or
hyperbaric chamber, that
typically results from
human error,
structural failure, or impact,
causing the
pressurised vessel...
