Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

AUXILIAIRES (ELECTRIQUES)

English translation:

(unit) auxiliaries

Added to glossary by Steve Sutcliffe
Nov 27, 2012 08:55
11 yrs ago
12 viewers *
French term

AUXILIAIRES (ELECTRIQUES)

French to English Tech/Engineering Energy / Power Generation Power Station Design
Principes d'alimentation des auxiliaires
Les auxiliaires d’une tranche peuvent être entièrement isolés
Les alimentations des auxiliaires sont réparties par groupe

Auxiliaires is another word which crops up a lot in this document which is a proposal for the development of a Combined Cycle Power Plant.

I've been using 'Auxiliary equipment' or 'auxiliary units' - perhaps there is a more specific term? They are divided into 4 groups in the document:
Auxiliaires de groupe
Les auxiliaires de production
Les auxiliaires prioritaires
Les auxiliaires de sécurité

Thanks!
Proposed translations (English)
5 (unit) auxiliaries
4 auxiliaries
Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (2): Bashiqa, Yvonne Gallagher

When entering new questions, KudoZ askers are given an opportunity* to classify the difficulty of their questions as 'easy' or 'pro'. If you feel a question marked 'easy' should actually be marked 'pro', and if you have earned more than 20 KudoZ points, you can click the "Vote PRO" button to recommend that change.

How to tell the difference between "easy" and "pro" questions:

An easy question is one that any bilingual person would be able to answer correctly. (Or in the case of monolingual questions, an easy question is one that any native speaker of the language would be able to answer correctly.)

A pro question is anything else... in other words, any question that requires knowledge or skills that are specialized (even slightly).

Another way to think of the difficulty levels is this: an easy question is one that deals with everyday conversation. A pro question is anything else.

When deciding between easy and pro, err on the side of pro. Most questions will be pro.

* Note: non-member askers are not given the option of entering 'pro' questions; the only way for their questions to be classified as 'pro' is for a ProZ.com member or members to re-classify it.

Discussion

Tony M Nov 27, 2012:
@ Johannes I don't agree; I don't think we can make such an assumption; the fact that the auxiliary unit supplies are distributed per generating set would also make perfect sense, and 'par groupe' isn't a very usual way of expressing the notion of 'grouped'.
Johannes Gleim Nov 27, 2012:
Non 'par groupe' veut dire 'groupé', c.-à.d. associé à un groupe.
Adam Warren Nov 27, 2012:
"groupe" in this context could be the "generator" They sound a bit like servo motors, i.e. ancillary to the main generating units; they could be powered items for bringing main generating units on-stream (production?), actuating safety mechanisms (de sécurité) or, in the case of "prioritaires", they could be "override mechanisms" e.g. - these are only **guesses**, though. I've worked on teams that translated generating plant, but I'm not a specialist, I emphasise.

Proposed translations

12 hrs
Selected

(unit) auxiliaries

en unit auxiliaries
any auxiliary equipment specific to the unit and indispensable for its operation
Examples: mills, circulating pumps, induced draught fans.

fr auxiliaires de tranche
ensemble des dispositifs auxiliaires affectés à la tranche et qui sont indispensables à son fonctionnement
Exemples: broyeurs, pompes de circulation, ventilateurs de tirage.
http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&iev...

en common auxiliaries
a group of auxiliary equipment which is common to the unit and the power station
Examples: lighting, compressors.

fr auxiliaires généraux
ensemble des dispositifs auxiliaires communs à la tranche et à la centrale
Exemples: éclairage, compresseurs.
http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&iev...

en auxiliary circuit (of an assembly)
all the conductive parts of an assembly of switchgear and controlgear included in a circuit (other than the main circuit) intended to control, measure, signal and regulate
NOTE – The auxiliary circuits of an assembly include the control and auxiliary circuits of the switching devices.

fr circuit auxiliaire (d'un ensemble)
toutes les pièces conductrices d'un ensemble insérées dans un circuit, autre que le circuit principal, destinées à la commande, la mesure, la signalisation et la régulation
NOTE – Les circuits auxiliaires d'un ensemble comprennent les circuits de commande et les circuits auxiliaires des appareils de connexion
http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&iev...

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 13 hrs (2012-11-27 22:50:04 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Note to 'ombined Cycle Power Plant'

Alpiq is planning to build a modern gas-fired combined-cycle power plant in the small commune of Monchy-au-Bois, some 180 kilometers north of Paris.

Alpiq has founded the company 3CA ("Centrale à Cycle Combiné de l'Artois") for the purpose of planning, building and operating the power plant.
http://www.alpiq.com/what-we-offer/our-assets/thermal-power-...

■The Yazd integrated solar combined cycle power station is a hybrid power station situated near Yazd, Iran which became operational in 2009. It is the world's first combined cycle power plant using solar power and natural gas. The plant has a capacity of 467 MW and uses solar energy to augment its steam generation by concentrating solar power technology. Yazd integrated solar combined cycle power station by the start of 2010 was the eight largest solar power plant in the world.
■La centrale électrique de Yazd est une centrale à cycle combiné solaire intégré électrique à cycle combiné situé près de Yazd, en Iran. Elle est opérationnelle depuis 2009. C'est la première centrale à cycle combiné utilisant l'énergie solaire et le gaz naturel. La centrale a une puissance nominale de 467 MW et utilise l'énergie solaire pour augmenter sa production de vapeur en concentrant l'énergie solaire. Au début 2010, la centrale à cycle combiné de Yazd était parmi les huit plus grandes centrales solaires au monde.
http://dbpedia.org/page/Yazd_integrated_solar_combined_cycle...

See also http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/science/306175-c...

L'expression cycle combiné (CC), déclinée en (CCPP pour combined cycle power plant), ou CCGT (combined cycle gas turbine ) caractérise un mode combiné de production d'énergie ou une centrale utilisant plus d’un cycle thermodynamique.
:
Le moteur thermique transforme une partie de l’énergie fournie par le combustible en travail moteur pouvant ensuite être converti en électricité au moyen d'un générateur.

Cette fraction (généralement moins de 50 %), dépend du cycle thermodynamique choisi ainsi que des températures supérieure et inférieure atteintes par le cycle.
Pour des températures données, le cycle de Carnot possède l’efficacité énergétique théorique maximale.
En combinant deux cycles, voire plus, tel que le cycle de Brayton et de Rankine, on peut augmenter l'efficacité énergétique du système. Les plus récentes centrales à cycle combiné au gaz atteignent ainsi des rendements sur PCI (Pouvoir calorifique inférieur) de plus de 60 %, contre 37 % pour les centrales à gaz classiques[1]. Le gaz et le fioul domestique peuvent être utilisés directement. Il existe également des installations utilisant la gazéification d'autres combustibles comme le charbon : les centrales de type Cycle combiné à gazéification intégrée (CCGI).
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrale_à_cycle_combiné

In electric power generation a combined cycle is an assembly of heat engines that work in tandem off the same source of heat, converting it into mechanical energy, which in turn usually drives electrical generators. The principle is that the exhaust of one heat engine is used as the heat source for another, thus extracting more useful energy from the heat, increasing the system's overall efficiency. This works because heat engines are only able to use a portion of the energy their fuel generates (usually less than 50%). In an ordinary (non combined cycle) heat engine the remaining heat (e.g., hot exhaust fumes) from combustion is generally wasted.

Combining two or more thermodynamic cycles results in improved overall efficiency, reducing fuel costs. In stationary power plants, a widely used combination is a gas turbine (operating by the Brayton cycle) burning natural gas or synthesis gas from coal, whose hot exhaust powers a steam power plant (operating by the Rankine cycle). This is called a Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) plant, and can achieve a thermal efficiency of around 60%, in contrast to a single cycle steam power plant which is limited to efficiencies of around 35-42%. Many new gas power plants in North America and Europe are of this type. Such an arrangement is also used for marine propulsion, and is called a combined gas and steam (COGAS) plant. Multiple stage turbine or steam cycles are also common.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_cycle
Something went wrong...
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks for an incredibly detailed and informative reply Johannes"
13 hrs
French term (edited): auxiliaires

auxiliaries

In the specific context of generating units, this is the term I have most often encountered; even though it is also the literal translation, it is used with a quite specific technical meaning in this context, over and above its general meaning.
Something went wrong...

Reference comments

3 hrs
Reference:

Power Generation Energy Efficient Design of Auxiliary Systems in Fossil-Fuel Power Plants

Here, "auxiliary systems" or just "auxiliaries is used.
Example sentence:

In power plants, auxiliaries serve to keep the steam-water cycle safely circulating, and to return it to its thermodynamic starting point.

Without these auxiliary systems, the steam-water cycle would suffer either an immediate collapse or a dangerous a

Something went wrong...
Term search
  • All of ProZ.com
  • Term search
  • Jobs
  • Forums
  • Multiple search