recovery boiler (English, noun)
expansion: recovery boiler (plural recovery boilers)
Senses:
glosses: A boiler for recovering the sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide used in a chemical wood pulping process.
glosses: Ellipsis of heat recovery boiler (“a boiler used to recover heat from a hot process stream, such as flue gas from a gas turbine”).
tags: abbreviation
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Forms:
form: recovery boilers
tags: plural