Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

déclenchement du groupe sur protection

English translation:

unit trip due to protective/safety systems

Added to glossary by Neal Allen
Feb 28, 2009 11:57
15 yrs ago
French term

déclenchement du groupe sur protection

French to English Other Mechanics / Mech Engineering Hydroelectric turbines
This appears in a user manual. I believe the referenced machinery is a hydroelectric turbine manufactured by Alstom. I just have sections of the manual with no explanation.

Context: Les événements de survitesse et d’emballement doivent être consignés au registre d‘opération de la machine par le propriétaire/utilisateur/opérateur de même que les causes ayant provoquées ces événements. Ces événements, sans être exhaustifs, peuvent être;
-déclenchement du groupe sur protection
Proposed translations (English)
3 +1 unit trip due to protective/safety systems

Proposed translations

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unit trip due to protective/safety systems

As far as I'm concerned that's what it says, but this is not consistent with overspeed or runaway events which would be prevented by the safety systems rather than caused ...

Of course " Les événements de survitesse et d’emballement" might be meant to include events putting an end to those situations as well as those causing them ...

The AFNOR nuclear dict. gives

"déclenchement par survitesse : overspeed trip", for example
Peer comment(s):

agree chris collister : That's my reading, though "sur" is unusual.
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